Northfork News

"West Virginia has been sucked into the same recession that has swallowed the national economy," George Hammond, associate director of West Virginia University's Bureau of Business and Economic Research, said at the state Economic Outlook Conference last week.

Several individuals in McDowell County have been arrested on drug-related charges as a result of an ongoing investigation, officials said Thursday.

Members of the Southern Regional Drug Taskforce, along with McDowell County Sheriff's Deputies and State Troopers spent Thursday evening searching two homes in the Northfork area.

Federal authorities unsealed an indictment today, charging a McDowell County man with distribution of cocaine base, also known as "crack." Torrence Ray, 38, of Northfork, was named in the three-count indictment alleging in count one that he aided and abetted a person known to the grand jury in distribution of crack in November of 2008, and that he ...

Herbert Roope, 57, 1167 Stewart Street, Welch, W.Va., went to be with the Lord, October 30th, 2009 at Welch Community Hospital.

PRINCETON POLICE Sept. 25 * ENTERING WITHOUT BREAKING, GRAND LARCENY: Ptlm. W.M. Bradley received a report from a woman that she had several construction workers inside her house and that there were tools missing.

What's on the Labor Day menu? Burgers or hot dogs? Chicken or steak? And there's even the more profound question of who's going to grill it.

Firefighters from the Keystone and Northfork volunteer fire departments battled an early morning blaze that destroyed five coal trucks that were in a parking lot behind the former Keystone Hardware building.

Firefighters from the Keystone and Northfork volunteer fire departments battled an early morning blaze that destroyed five coal trucks that were in a parking lot behind the former Keystone Hardware building.

Three firefighters were injured, four big coal trucks were destroyed and a fifth truck sustained minor damage in a fire of "suspicious" origin that occurred early Sunday morning in a parking lot behind the former Keystone Hardware, a state official said.

Firefighters from the Keystone and Northfork volunteer fire departments battled an early morning blaze that destroyed five coal trucks that were in a parking lot behind the former Keystone Hardware building.

Three projects in West Virginia are getting financial help from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Ita s a Wednesday afternoon in Welch. Local artist Tom Acosta is perched on scaffolding, applying his paint brush to a large mural near the north entrance of town.

The "Kimball Kids" will start arriving in town for registration this evening, but they won't be coming empty-handed. Markella Gianato, organizer of the annual community reunion, sent out the word that a Northfork-based food pantry is rapidly running out of food, and asked people coming to the event to bring some nonperishable foods with them.

Three regional health centers, including the Bluestone Health Association Inc., with locations at Lake Shawnee and Montcalm, Tug River Health Association Inc., with locations in Gary and Northfork and the Monroe County Health Center in Union, will benefit from more than $1.6 million in federal funding, according to a press release from U.S. Senator ...

The Department of Health and Human Resources has issued boil-water advisories for two water systems in McDowell County.

Well aware of how humbling golf can be on the best of days, Josh Webb was entirely pleased with his round Friday on the second stop along the Mid-Ohio Valley Junior Golf Association.

A Northfork woman says doctors at Community Radiology of Virginia failed to diagnose her with breast cancer after an imaging test.

As a place for trail riders to have fun, the Hatfield-McCoy Trails come highly recommended.

Since it was founded in 1964, the Council of the Southern Mountains in McDowell County has seen a lot of change.