Pitch Southern West Virginia Business Idea Competition First Round Applications Due Noon September 2, 2025

BECKLEY, WV (LOOTPRESS) – The West Virginia Hive Network is accepting entries from entrepreneurs for its 2025 Pitch Southern West Virginia (PSWV) business idea competition. First round applications are due to the WV Hive by noon September 2, 2025. …

A Duie Pyle adds new facilities in West Virginia and Ohio

A. Duie Pyle, a Chester County-based provider of integrated transportation and distribution solutions has announced the recent openings of several new facilities. The company has opened new LTL — or less-than-truckload — service centers in Bridgeport, W.Va …

US government is building a 5,000-person immigrant detention camp in west Texas

The U.S. government is building an immense 5,000-person detention camp in west Texas, government contract announcements said, sharply increasing the Trump administration’s ability to hold detained immigrants amid its ever-growing mass deportation efforts. …

Healthy careers for healthier West Virginians

It was 1972 . Dr. Leonard Nelson, President of West Virginia Institute of Technology, decided to re-organize the college. He put Dr. Jack Robertson as Dean of a new component called the School of Human Studies. After being hired only the year prior, I was …

Navy announces $250M expansion, upgrade to West Coast submarine base

USS Maine, an Ohio-class nuclear ballistic missile submarine, transits Puget Sound near Seattle in March 2025. (U.S. Navy) The Navy plans to spend up to $250 million to extend and modernize a pier at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor to serve new ballistic missile …

College sports notebook: West Virginia golfer, Penn-Trafford grad qualifies for U.S. Amateur Golf Championship

2025 Best Virginia TBT Roster

Best Virginia (West Virginia’s alumni squad) has been a TBT staple since 2019, consistently showcasing the toughness and grit that defined WVU basketball. Winners of this year's West Virginia region, they also reached the quarterfinals in both 2021 and …

Two West Virginians crowned at national Miss Amazing summit

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va (WDTV) - The national ‘Miss Amazing’ summit, an annual pageant for girls and women with disabilities, concluded its 2025 conference in Chicago over the weekend. West Virginia stole the spotlight with crowned winners Carrie Davis and Abby …

Speedy team building process set the foundation for Best Virginia’s TBT run

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Perhaps the greatest challenge of a coaching staff leading a squad in The Basketball Tournament is having to microwave a team building process with an economy of practices leading into the single-elimination event. Best Virginia head …

“Move Over” law in West Virginia

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - Preventing crashes is the goal of a new law in effect in West Virginia, and Sgt. Travis Bailes said it’s as easy as switching lanes. “A lot of those (crashes) do occur with those that might be disabled on the side of the road, so …