A Flood Watch has been issued for upcoming rain and snow melt in the high terrain of West Virginia. The watch starts Thursday evening and runs until later in the day Friday. * ...

CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK ... Here’s a look at the county-by-county breakdown of outages. By County: Appalachian Power’s outage map shows 15 outages in Boone County, 53 in Cabell County ...

Below is an upper-level map for the pattern associated with the coldest ... Mercer, Wyoming, and McDowell Counties in West Virginia and Tazewell County, Virginia.

The town of Kimball was once home to the nation’s largest privately owned African American hospital.  After taking over a ...

If you want to learn more about black history in our area, the National Park Service has just the app for you. You can ...

The North Fork fire is burning in areas of heavy damage from Hurricane Helene near the Woodlawn Community in McDowell County, NC. The fire is located east of Highway 221 and south of American ...

Davis and Ware want to use the church that once divided McDowell County into miners and management to reclaim what has been ...

OLD FORT, N.C. — Firefighters continue to make progress against the North Fork Fire in McDowell County, which is now 65% contained, according to the U.S. Forest Service. The North Fork Fire grew ...

McDowell County, the southernmost county in West Virginia (WV), was created in 1858 and named in honor of James McDowell, the governor of Virginia from 1824 until 1844. Its county seat is at Welch.

The fire is happening while Western North Carolina is under an increased fire danger warning due to gusty winds, making it ...

North Carolina's McDowell County, still recovering from the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene, is facing yet another natural disaster in the form of wildfires. Old Fort, a town of roughly 800 ...