The Walkersville Covered Bridge at Walkersville, West Virginia, in Lewis County, spans the right fork of the West Fork River and is a 39-foot-long queen-post truss. The bridge was built by John G.

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FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. — What began as a search for an affordable retirement option has turned into one of southern West Virginia’s most imaginative... BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va. — Le Sage Natural Water, of ...

FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. — In West Virginia, spring doesn’t begin on a single date. It begins with a sound. On mild late-winter evenings, a high, piping chorus rises from ponds, wetlands, and roadside ...

GREEN BANK, W.Va. — The universe is a strange place. And it is never truly silent. Across the vast darkness it whispers, in radio waves older than Earth, in particles carried on solar winds, in faint ...

HELVETIA, W.Va. — History will tell you the name Helvetia is derived from the Helvetii, a Celtic tribe that once peopled the region now known as Switzerland. But here in the mountains of West Virginia ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Two West Virginia University experts are warning residents and visitors that ticks are more prevalent than ever, and encounters with them are increasingly causing serious health ...

BECKLEY, W.Va. — They’re hard to miss in downtowns and along highway strips in West Virginia with their neon-bright window graphics, flavor names splashed across posters, and glass cases filled with ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A West Virginia physician and former law-enforcement officer is urging state leaders to invest in a chronic care hospital aimed at treating the mentally ill, drug addicted, and ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Sports in West Virginia will always include Friday-night football, high school basketball, and hunting and fishing, but the landscape is changing. A handful of “next wave” sports ...

LEWISBURG, W.Va. — Beneath the bluegrass pastures of eastern West Virginia lies one of the most extensive cave networks in North America—a hidden landscape of winding tunnels, underground streams, and ...