Logan County

Applications are being taken for a judicial vacancy in West Virginia.

A first of its kind rural medicine program at Marshall University has received initial accreditation.

Residents along Buffalo Creek have been cleaning up and rebuilding for 50 years after a coal slurry dam broke and wiped out 16 communities. Now there’s a new generation that’s continuing this work, in their own way.

The West Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles is not giving road skills tests at the regional office in Logan until further notice, the agency said. The Logan office is not giving the tests due to a COVID-related staffing shortage, the DMV said in a news release Monday.

The entertainer known as Dagmar died on October 9, 2001. Born as Virginia Ruth Egnor in Logan County, West Virginia in 1921, in the 1950s she was one of the most recognizable faces on television and even graced the cover of Life magazine.

Musician “Curly” Ray Cline died on August 19, 1997, at age 64. The Logan County native was one of the best bluegrass fiddlers ever to emerge from West…

Aviation has played a role in Appalachia’s history through revolutionizing travel in the mid-1900s, supporting the coal industry and creating thousands of…

On January 30, 1920, the United Mine Workers of America launched a concerted effort to unionize southern West Virginia. Relations between the UMWA and…

Katherine Manley grew up in abject poverty in Logan County, W. Va., but went on to teach in the same schools she attended. Mountain State Press recently…

Blackhawk Mining says it's closing three mines and two preparation plants in West Virginia amid weak global coal markets.The Kentucky-based coal company…