The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia ...

Black History Month means a lot to many people in the state of West Virginia. 59News reached out to Councilman Frank Williams ...

West Virginia Archives & History (WVAH) and West Virginia State Historic Office (WV SHPO) are holding a free webinar for ...

The Virginia Theatre in Wheeling opened on Jan. 20, 1908 and was at one time the largest theater in West Virginia.

Pleasants, who is the longest continuously serving senator in state history, resigned from the Legislature on Thursday citing ...

After 41 years as a member of the Senate, I have decided it is time for me to retire from public service and focus on my ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WVVA) - Senator Donna J. Boley, (R-Pleasants), has submitted a letter of resignation effective immediately ...

Governor Patrick Morrisey announced that West Virginia has been awarded $1,107,129 in National Criminal History Improvement ...

Governor Patrick Morrisey announced that more than $1 million was awarded to help the state judiciary and state agencies ...

It was this date in 1951 a gas explosion in a coal mine in Kermit, West Virginia killed 11 miners, injured two others.

Despite its official government recognition in 1975, scholars say Black History Month started decades earlier with the work ...