Four months after McDowell County, West Virginia, was hit with catastrophic flooding, one of the poorest counties in one of ...

The West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation (WVDCR) announced a hiring event on Friday, July 11, 2025 that will take place at Stevens Correctional Center ...

As of Tuesday, employees of the Stevens Correctional Facility in Welch work for the State of West Virginia, giving them ...

Signage was recently installed at the new Coalfield Elementary School in McDowell County. According to a statement from the McDowell County Board of Education, the signage was added to the new school ...

Another round of free classes teaching proper high tunnel maintenance is almost finished. High tunnels are passively-heated, plastic covered structures designed to ...

The South's health disparities begin with its landscape and the region's agricultural history that compounded these health ...

About $12 million of federal relief has trickled into McDowell County, but residents are largely relying on each for aid and rebuilding.

With more 100 partners already in the program, The Appalachian Beekeeping Collective makes it easy for potential new ...

Sen. Mark Maynard, R-Wayne, who also represents parts of McDowell County, said he is starting to look into what needs to happen for areas like Welch and Kimball to get flood walls.

While President Donald Trump issued a federal disaster declaration for Texas within days after substantial flash flooding, ...

Learn more about McDowell County Schools here - find all of the schools in the district, student data, test scores, district budget and more.