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From left, sixth-graders Chris Zelek, Adam Chao and Ben Roberts were among the students at Wheeling Country Day School’s middle school who worked on building a hydraulic claw. The claw was part of a project presented through the STEAM Tech Assistance Center, a partnership between West Virginia University and the West Virginia Department of Eductation. […]

WHEELING — In the quest to boost the economic development possibilities at the Wheeling-Ohio County Airport, the former chief development officer at Yeager International Airport has come to Ohio County. Kevin Price was introduced Monday afternoon as the Wheeling-Ohio County Airport’s chief development officer. He spent seven years in the same role at Yeager. In […]

Cora Gurley sat in a meeting space on one side of the Ohio Valley Recovery Unity Center in Benwood. For the purposes of the exercise in which she was participating, Gurley was in jail. Gurley was one of more than a dozen at the Unity Center taking part in a reentry simulation sponsored by the […]

Crews begin erecting precast walls Tuesday afternoon at the site of the new Wheeling Fire Department headquarters at the corner of 17th and Wood streets in Wheeling. The new facility will be a 24,860 square-foot single-story structure, which will include space for additional trucks, areas for hands-on training such as a hose drying/training tower, a […]

Edgco Inc. crews continue tearing down the building that once housed Spic & Span dry cleaners on National Road in Woodsdale. Workers are using a concrete crusher to break apart the walls. The machine also is able to cut through rebar. (Photo by Derek Redd)

WHEELING – In the minds of Wheeling Park High School administrators, it’s just as important to celebrate students signing to join the United States military as it is to celebrate students signing to play college athletics. The school put that thought into action Friday, holding its first Military Signing Day ceremony in the WPHS Innovative […]

WHEELING – For nurse Peggy Porter, driving by and seeing the OVGH letters lit up at night at the former Ohio Valley Medical Center made her feel like she was coming home. Now she is hoping the facility’s smokestack and neon letters can be saved and possibly incorporated into the future cancer center campus, which […]

GLEN DALE – Blue skies and warm weather greeted Marshall County Special Olympians on Thursday morning as they began competition in the fields behind John Marshall High School. For Marshall County Superintendent Shelby Haines, it’s always the best day of the year. It also was a day that was a long time coming. The COVID-19 […]

WHEELING – A ruptured gas line along National Road shut down a section between Bethany Pike and Mount DeChantal Road completely for several hours Wednesday. It was a rupture that, according to Wheeling Fire Chief James Blazier, had the potential to be much more dire if not for quick and effective work by several organizations. […]

West Virginia was built on entrepreneurship, a panel of experts said Tuesday morning. It’s the doers and the makers who are the lifeblood of the Mountain State, and that spirit needs to be cultivated and preserved in future generations. A quartet of education officials discussed the entrepreneurial educational pipeline in West Virginia to kick off […]