Nicholas County

Family Treatment Court is an innovative program that reunifies families amid the state’s foster care crisis and the drug epidemic.

Drug and alcohol abuse has torn West Virginia families apart and separated parents from their children. But a recent family court graduation shows how a community can come together to change that. Ten parents in Nicholas County celebrated a big milestone in their sobriety as they’ve been reunited with their children. Amelia Knisely has the story.

There’s a struggle to break ground on the construction of three public schools originally damaged by flooding six years ago.

The trial for a West Virginia man charged with murder in the fatal shooting a police officer has begun after a judge denied a motion to move proceedings out of Kanawha County.

A Nicholas County Sheriff’s Deputy was killed and another injured in an officer involved shooting Friday evening in Birch River. One suspect was killed, according to the West Virginia State Police, and a second was wounded.

A Nicholas County delegate has announced he is leaving his seat in the West Virginia House of Delegates, months before the 2020 general election.The…

Only eight months after launching West Virginia’s first family treatment court, Boone County Judge William Thompson said the coronavirus pandemic caused…

Gov. Jim Justice's office announced on Friday West Virginia will receive more than $131 million to replace schools in Nicholas County destroyed by…

On January 27, 1925, the Reverend Bernard Coffindaffer was born at Craigsville in Nicholas County.During World War II, he served in the Marines and was…

On September 10, 1861, a Civil War battle was fought at Carnifex Ferry in Nicholas County. The clash had been unfolding for nearly two months, after…