MCDOWELL COUNTY, W.Va. (WVVA) - The McDowell County Sheriff’s Office is seeking information pertaining to the location of a ...

— A McDowell County native lost in the Korean War has finally been identified. The DPAA annoucned Army Cpl. Paul Mitchem, 20, of Avondale, West Virginia was accounted for on February 11, 2021.

The Stevens Correctional Center in McDowell County is now under the control of the West Virginia Division of Corrections. Legislation introduced earlier this year in the West Virginia Legislature ...

Court records say a McDowell County deputy has been charged in a domestic battery incident. Martin Kevin Shelton, 47, of Avondale is charged with domestic battery, according to a criminal ...

Out-of-state coal companies own millions of acres in West Virginia, making it difficult for new industries to develop the land. In McDowell County, ten landholders own over 60 percent of private land.

WELCH, W.Va. — A man charged with killing a McDowell County woman is back in West Virginia to face the charges. Kenneth Stout (WVRJA) Kenneth Stout, 63, was transported to the state by police ...

Four months after McDowell County, West Virginia, was hit with catastrophic flooding, one of the poorest counties in one of the poorest states in the U.S. is still working to recover.

The scars of that flooding are still very evident in McDowell County. The West Virginia Division of Highways and some other agencies have put in more than 32,000 man hours in that county alone.

McDowell County was, unambiguously, Trump country. In McDowell County, West Virginia - where coal country voters are in desperate straits - Donald Trump bested Hillary Clinton by a four-to-one margin.