Pocahontas County News

Daniel Duncan had only been at West Virginia Wesleyan College for a couple weeks, but had already made a significant impact on the campus community.

While Pocahontas County residents are debating the issue of future gas drilling, more than 50 wells already exist in the northernmost region of the county.

State Police find fugitive in Uncle's Attic West Virginia State Police, with the Lewisburg Detachment, captured 24 year-old Lucas Paul Hull around 10 p.m. Monday night.

Residents of Pocahontas County who own their minerals could be in a very unique situation.

The 2009 Country Living House of the Year is located in West Virginia. The $1.5 million dollar house sits in Sawmill Village at Snowshoe Mountain Resort in Pocahontas County, an exclusive, gated community ...

A pair of state lawmakers and a county commissioner are upset over proposed plans by WorkForce West Virginia officials to downsize services at the Greenbrier Valley Unemployment and Job Service offices.

The county commission voted unanimously Tuesday to develop a lease agreement with Allegheny Recreation Center , represented by J.P. Duncan and John Fitzgerald, for the old Hanover shoe factory property, on ...

School system funding for the county's library system was a major topic at the Board of Education meeting on Monday.

The 2008 West Virginia Monarch Butterfly Festival kicks off this weekend. Story by Sarah Kapis Email Bio Other Stories by Sarah Kapis OXFORD -- Ashley and Heather Ness have been raising monarch butterflies for ...

Joel Rosenthal, who made the Division of Natural Resources look foolish for prosecuting his rescue of a baby deer as a crime, now seeks to make the division pay.

Water quality and property are on one side of a permitting process and a potential shale quarry is on the other.

Pocahontas County will not operate its own community corrections program but will become a satellite of the Mercer County program, along with Monroe, Summers, Raleigh, Wyoming, McDowell and Greenbrier counties.

Gov. Joe Manchin believes in the potential of Pocahontas County. During his tour of The National Radio Astronomy Observatory and Cass Scenic Railroad Monday afternoon, Manchin shared his enthusiasm for the ...

A special controlled deer hunt on the grounds of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank has been suspended for 2008 because of last year's low harvest rate, officials said Friday.

The Pocahontas County Grand Jury indicted 10 men and one woman when it convened Tuesday.

Anyone doing plumbing work or offering to do plumbing work will need a license, starting in January, 2009.

A plan to build a wastewater treatment facility at Slatyfork, near the junction of the Elk River's two main tributaries, didn't go over well with the people who fish there.

A grand jury indicted a Milford man accused of having eight pipe bombs in his house, a discovery that prompted the evacuation of his neighborhood in May.

A grand jury indicted a Milford man accused of having eight pipe bombs in his house, a discovery that prompted the evacuation of his neighborhood in May.

A grand jury indicted a Milford man accused of having eight pipe bombs in his house, a discovery that prompted the evacuation of his neighborhood in May.