the City of Nitro that lies along the Kanawha River was born from the manufacturing needs of World War I, which helped give it its name. Facing shortages during the war, Congress passed the ...

Photo Provided Lewis McPherson, lockmaster, is shown standing on a gate of Lock #1, a.k.a. the Viscose Lock in the Little Kanawha River, circa 1910. It was Lock #1 where the men in the story below ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - A car ended up in the Kanawha River after a crash in Charleston Monday morning. The crash happened on Kanawha Boulevard near Park Avenue just after 8 a.m., with one of ...

In the span of two years, the old dam at Little Hocking claimed two major sternwheelers and 18 lives. As the Kanawha pulled ...

Jonathan Cox, a former professor of sculpture at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, known for his art ...

The arrival of spring in what would become West Virginia in the late 1700s was not met with the enthusiasm with which we ...