Charleston Gazette-Mail

12/01/2025

Webster County mourns the death of West Virginia National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom.

Community members gathered inside City Hall on Nov. 28, 2025 for a candlelight vigil honoring Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, the 20-year-old Webster County native who died on Nov. 26, 2025 after being fatally shot while serving with the West Virginia National Guard in Washington, D.C. The room filled q...

12/01/2025

Wintry mix possible Monday night, Tuesday morning in the Huntington/Charleston area.

There is a Winter Weather Advisory set for the evening of Dec. 1, 2025 through the morning of Dec. 2, 2025 for the Tri-State area around Huntington, West Virginia, according to the National Weather Service. It should be a bit warmer in the Charleston, West Virginia area, with mostly rain expected.

11/29/2025

A pair of reindeer at Old School Christmas Farm are bringing the holiday spirit to West Virginia.

11/29/2025

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11/28/2025

The saying holds that mountaineers are always free.

But the West Virginians who come to Betty Stepp don’t feel free to trust their own water.

In 2024, West Virginia had the nation’s highest percentage of public water systems with health-based Safe Drinking Water Act violations – 29.2%, according to a Gazette-Mail analysis of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data. West Virginia’s percentage of public water systems with violations...

11/28/2025

Charleston Gazette-Mail reporter Mike Tony is a grantee in the newspaper’s new partnership with one of the world’s leading journalism organizations to deliver "Thirst for Trust," a series on West Virginia’s drinking water quality struggles.

Charleston Gazette-Mail reporter Mike Tony is a grantee in the newspaper’s new partnership with one of the world’s leading journalism organizations to deliver a series on West Virginia’s drinking water quality struggles. The Gazette-Mail has secured support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis R...

11/28/2025

Prior to her death 200 years ago this week, "Mad" Anne Bailey cast a giant shadow across the western fringe of the Virginia frontier as a scout and long-distance messenger during an era of bloodshed between European settlers and Native Americans.

"Mad"Anne Bailey, legendary frontierswoman of the Kanawha Valley in West Virginia, died 200 years ago on Nov. 22, 1825. Bailey, born Anne Hennis in England, was instrumental in the westward expansion of Americans through the Kanawha Valley, including Charleston, West Virginia and Point Pleasant, Mas...

11/28/2025

Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, one of two West Virginia National Guard members shot while on assignment in Washington, D.C., has died, President Donald Trump and Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced in separate statements Thursday evening.

An Afghan national has been accused of shooting two West Virginia National Guard members just blocks from the White House in a brazen act of violence. The guard members had

11/27/2025

The PIPESOUNDS Organ Concert Series at Forrest Burdette Memorial United Methodist Church is set to welcome back celebrated organist Rodney Barbour for its annual Christmas performance on the Harrah Symphonic Organ.

The PIPESOUNDS Organ Concert Series at Forrest Burdette Memorial United Methodist Church is set to welcome back celebrated organist Rodney Barbour for its annual Christmas performance on the Harrah Symphonic

11/27/2025

ICYMI: On a uniquely American holiday where we give thanks, greet new and old friends and share a meal, many groups, churches and businesses in the Kanawha Valley welcome all with free Thanksgiving events.

Here's a list of some of them👇

Find a free Thanksgiving meal or event in the Kanawha Valley of West Virginia for the 2025 holiday. Here's a list.

11/27/2025

President Donald Trump didn't bring much holiday cheer Tuesday when bestowing ceremonial pardons on two Thanksgiving turkeys, dispensing more insults than goodwill at the traditional White House ritual.

Via AP

President Donald Trump brought insults and grievances to the traditional Thanksgiving turkey pardoning ceremony at the White House. On Tuesday, he joked about sending the turkeys to a prison in

11/27/2025

UPDATE: Authorities have identified the suspect involved in today's shooting of two WV Guard members.

Two West Virginia National Guard members were shot, on Nov. 26, 2025, near the White House in Washington D.C., according to Gov. Patrick Morrisey.