The CDC spent four weeks in June in the capital city to figure out what more local and state health officials can do to slow the spread of HIV.

The last of West Virginia’s COVID-19 restrictions are gone. Masks are no longer required in public spaces. That’s just one more step to things looking more normal in the Charleston area.

Eighteen Republican-led states, including West Virginia, signed on to a case to get rid of the ACA.

The opioid crisis is at the center of a new project from West Virginia filmmaker Tijah Bumgarner.

For the month of June, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is in Kanawha County to assess the current HIV outbreak.The CDC’s short-term investigation and assistance, known as an Epi-Aid, involves boots on the ground interviews and data analysis.

A hospital that almost shut down last year is now expanding under new ownership. Over the course of about five years, WVU plans to completely rebuild the Marion County hospital “in place”, which was originally built in the 1930s.

So far, about 13,600 of those 12 to 15 in West Virginia have gotten at least one shot, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services.

Kanawha County has the most alarming HIV outbreak in the nation, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But Tuesday, a small team from the CDC arrived in the capitol city to figure out what more could be done to stomp out this growing epidemic.

College scholarships, pickup trucks, and million dollar cash prizes are all up for grabs as part of the governor’s latest effort.

"I still feel weird not wearing a mask right now, cause I've been wearing it here for so long,” a store clerk at Taylor Books said. “I’m still getting used to it.”