Kanawha Valley Regional Transportation Authority officials held a meeting on May 31, 2024 about proposing route discontinuations and fare increases. According to officials at the meeting and a detailed comprehensive plan posted on the KRT website, eleven routes could be discontinued. In place of the regularly occurring bus lines, officials proposed an on-demand ride service that will allow riders to request or schedule a ride in advance from their phone.
Two people and multiple dogs died in a Dupont City housefire at 100 Holbrook Court early on Feb. 4, 2024, according to Belle Fire Chief David Armstrong. Fire departments from Belle, Malden and Cedar Grove along with Kanawha County Emergency Management responded to the scene on Holbrook Court near Rand.
DUPONT CITY, WV (WVNS) — A man and woman died in a fatal house fire in Kanawha County on Sunday. According to the Office of The State Fire Marshal, first responders were called to a house fire on Holbrook Road in the Dupont City area of Kanawha County on Sunday, February 4, 2024, at around […]
CHARLESTON – A class-action lawsuit has been filed related to Tuesday’s explosion at a Kanawha Valley chemical plant that left one man dead, others injured and an entire area rocked by the blast.
Erica Powell of Chesapeake is the named plaintiff in the complaint filed December 10 by Charleston attorney Rusty Webb against Optima Belle Inc. Optima was operating as a tenant inside the Chemours plant in Belle. The explosion was caused by chlorinated dry bleach and methanol.
“Ms. Powell was literally shaking today thinking about the blast,” Webb told
The West Virginia Record after he filed the complaint in Kanawha Circuit Court. “She says her mom, who lives up that way, literally can’t be left along right now. It rocked their world.”