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WHEELING – Members of Wheeling City Council are scheduled to meet tonight to hear first readings on new legislation and to vote on an ordinance to place a bus levy renewal issue on the ballots in May for the city’s share of Ohio Valley Regional Transit Authority funding. A second and final reading of the […]

WHEELING – Curb and sidewalk work along Main Street as part of the Downtown Streetscape Project in Wheeling has been moving along briskly in recent months, and the West Virginia Division of Highways and the project general contractor are rearranging the work schedule to allow paving to occur much sooner that originally planned. The paving […]

WHEELING – The cost of repairs to the tunnel on Heritage Trail at Tunnel Green in East Wheeling is expected to exceed a half-million dollars, according to city officials. The tunnel – historically known as the Hempfield Railroad Tunnel – has remained closed to the public this winter because of falling bricks inside the structure. […]

Read the statement from homeless service providers to the City of Wheeling here. 2024.1.23 Service Provider Statement WHEELING – Volunteers could be seen Wednesday morning cleaning around the outskirts of the East Wheeling parking lot that will become the exempted site for homeless individuals in the city. They picked up trash, raked out mulch and […]

WHEELING — Volunteers could be seen Wednesday morning cleaning around the outskirts of the East Wheeling parking lot that will become the exempted site for ho

WHEELING — Cleanup of homeless encampments throughout Wheeling is expected to resume at the end of this month, as the American Civil Liberties Union of West V

WHEELING – Cleanup of homeless encampments throughout Wheeling is expected to resume at the end of this month, as the American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia has agreed to voluntarily dismiss a lawsuit against the city over its new camping ban. Both the city and the ACLU-WV issued statements on Tuesday about an agreement […]

There are few things that can raise a community’s ire more than tinkering with youth sports. Members of Wheeling City Council learned that recently when they were caught off-guard over a new policy set forth by the city’s Parks and Recreation Department that changed the fee schedule for sponsors at the city ballfields. Several council […]

WHEELING – The property that the city of Wheeling is temporarily exempting from its new camping ban to accommodate homeless individuals has its benefits and its drawbacks, according to Catholic Charities of West Virginia President and CEO Mark Phillips. But the city administration’s willingness to grant the exemption is a good step forward toward collaborative […]

WHEELING – The city of Wheeling and homeless advocacy groups came to an agreement Friday, with the city allowing an exemption for a homeless camp site across the street from Catholic Charities Neighborhood Center on 18th Street. With that agreement, the city also will hold off on dismantling the remaining homeless camps in Wheeling city […]