MORGANTOWN—Concern over food shortages and difficulty getting to grocery stores due to COVID-19 caused many West Virginians to turn to local farmers, and in turn, local farmers had to turn to one another. The Coronavirus pandemic increased demand for food, subsequently putting vegetable ...
I’ve written about some of the obvious negatives of the pandemic on wildlife. The loss of hunters and tourists in Africa and parks around the world has meant less staff guarding wildlife from thieves and poachers. These impacts are diverse and huge in some parts of the ...
MORGANTOWN -- Two equals 100 (plus) at University High School. At least it did Friday. Which is why the COVID disinfecting crew of Monongalia County’s school district will likely put in a lot of steps up and down those long hallways at UHS Saturday. That’s because two positive ...
An investigation into unreported deaths, a redoubling of efforts to vaccinate the state’s seniors, and tax relief aimed at unemployment benefits highlighted Gov. Jim Justice’s Friday COVID briefing. In addition to 15 COVID-related deaths in the state since Wednesday, Justice said ...
Thursday’s positive COVID diagnosis of a Mountaineer Middle student may have given the school a pandemic designation Superintendent Eddie Campbell Jr. was hoping to avoid. “It looks like we’re probably going to have to label this as our first classroom-to-classroom transmission in ...
A TV news reporter was accosted while filming Saint Patrick's Day parties on North High Street's frat row. The reporter was streaming live when a white man wearing a backwards ball cap and a Pittsburgh Pirates jersey approaches him and demands he deletes the video. "I just need you to ...