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KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WOWK) — The Kanawha County Board of Education has renewed a policy allowing eligible retired school bus drivers to return to work as substitutes to help address an ongoing driver shortage. According to Kanawha County Schools Human Resources Executive Director Ronald Pauley, the district…
ST. ALBANS, W.Va. (WOWK) — The sound of hammers and the sight of hard hats were at a house in St. Albans Thursday for a community partnership that has lasted for over two decades. The work is part of Covestro's 23rd annual Raise the Roof Build with Habitat for Humanity of Kanawha and Putnam County.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) — Kanawha County Schools Superintendent Dr. Paula Potter discussed enrollment numbers for the 2026-2027 school year Thursday. The County saw a decline in enrollment, with a little more than 900 fewer students enrolled this school year. This is the same trend that is happening statewide, with…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump told reporters that he had “heard something about” the Department of Justice investigating allegations that Corey Lewandowski profited off his past role as an adviser at the Department of Homeland Security, after media reports of an investigation surfaced Thursday. Lewandowski…
BOYD COUNTY, Ky. (WOWK) — The operator of a Boyd County farm at the center of an animal abuse investigation has been arrested and charged with animal cruelty. According to the Boyd County Sheriff's Office, Marlo Matheny, operator of Ohana Run Farm, was charged with Animal Cruelty, 2nd Degree, a Class A Misdemeanor…
MASON CO., W.Va. (WOWK) -- Sandwiched between two planned high-impact data centers, West Virginia House District 17 could be a stress test for the consequences of HB 2014, the hotly debated microgrid legislation passed by the state's Republican supermajority in 2025. The rural House district lies just north of the…
PUTNAM COUNTY, W.Va. (WOWK) — 102 years of life and enough stories to fill a library. That's what friends and family gathered to celebrate at the home of Jack Van Dyke. But more than eight decades ago, Van Dyke wasn't celebrating. He was surviving. Fighting as a young infantryman in the New Guinea Campaign during