Chemical Spill

The West Virginia State Department of Transportation reports all lanes of the West Virginia Turnpike have reopened after a tractor-trailer carrying hazardous chemicals crashed just north of Pax near mile marker 62.

An interstate highway in West Virginia reopened Wednesday, a day after a tractor-trailer carrying a hazardous material overturned.

On this West Virginia Morning, high levels of “forever chemicals” have contaminated a plastics recycling company in Henderson, Kentucky. Also, in this show, we have the next installment in a new series “Bail in West Virginia.” Patrick Orsagos examines the state’s overcrowded jail populations.

Updated on Jan. 2, 2019 at 1:40 p.m.The evacuation for the .5 mile radius surrounding the Sewage Treatment Plant at 500 E. John St. was lifted on Dec. 24,…

Residents and businesses in nine West Virginia counties left without tap water during a 2014 chemical spill can start filing claims.According to a website…

Monday marks the third anniversary of the Elk River chemical spill that left more than 300,000 West Virginians without usable drinking water for more than…

Lawyers say a tentative deal has been reached with West Virginia American Water Co in a class-action case over the company's handling of the 2014 water…

A federal judge has again postponed the trial against the water company accused of insufficiently safeguarding West Virginia's capital city from a…

A month before a class-action lawsuit over a 2014 chemical spill is set to go to trial, a federal judge has declined to throw out allegations that partly…

Source water protection plans are mandates water utilities are required to follow to keep drinking water safe. However, before 2014, following these plans…