MCDOWELL COUNTY ... hear about McDowell County. The county has continually been ranked among the poorest, unhealthiest and least educated counties in both West Virginia and the entire United ...

The 4th annual Coalfields Cookoff kicks off on Friday, June 6-7 in McDowell County. The event, hosted in the city of Welch at ...

Construction on McDowell County’s first four-lane highway has reached the half-way point. Work on the Coalfields Expressway near Welch is now 50 percent complete, according to Rusty Marks with the ...

WELCH, WV (WVNS) – Some McDowell County Schools went on a soft lockdown ... A soft lockdown allows these schools to resume normal activities inside their buildings while exterior doors were ...

PIPESTEM, WV (WVNS) – A McDowell County native officially earned his ... Scott Hill is the Activities Coordinator at Pipestem Resort State Park. Pipestem Resort State Park will be adding several ...

There’s no business left.” When the Economic Development Authority of McDowell County in West Virginia announced the opening of a privately-owned prison in 2006, hundreds of laid-off coal ...

The short answer: Most did leave. In the last half-century, about 80 percent of the population of McDowell County, West Virginia, departed as jobs disappeared and civic life frayed, writes Reason ...

MCDOWELL COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) – A couple from Welch, West Virginia is confirmed dead following a severe flooding event that hit parts of West Virginia over the weekend, Gov. Patrick Morrisey ...

MCDOWELL COUNTY, WV (WCHS/WVAH) — State troopers in McDowell County arrested five men Tuesday who are accused of copper thefts at the Keystone No. 1 mine. Dustin Bolen, 21, Justin Bolen ...

(WCHS) — A woman has been charged after a man was found dead Monday in McDowell County, West Virginia. Robin Crawford, 60, is charged with murder in the death of Patsy Campinella, 70, according ...

WELCH, W.Va. — A McDowell County jury convicted a local man of two counts of involuntary manslaughter stemming from a shooting in McDowell County in 2022. The jury found Jhamel Scott Jr ...

(WSAZ) – The names of a couple who died during weekend flooding in McDowell County have been released. Donald Eugene Griffin and Deborah Griffin, both 69 and from Welch, West Virginia ...