The Jefferson County Farmland Protection Board is concerned that a proposed water bottling operation in Middleway may damage ...

A Jefferson County grand jury indicted an illegal immigrant from El Salvador with a violent criminal background of the murder of a 32-year-old Charles Town woman whose burning body was ...

Could a large sports, recreation and conference center complex be an economic development driver for Jefferson County?

Jefferson County Superintendent Chuck Bishop receives annual salary and cash benefits of $183,150 for overseeing the state’s ...

The Jefferson County school board agreed to undertake a fresh review of a 2020 policy providing extra “stipend” pay—which ...

Citing political tensions surrounding the city’s water and sewer utility board, Charles Town Councilman Mike George has ...

Citing a zoning code restriction related to historic properties, the Jefferson County Historic Landmarks Commission voted ...

George Rutherford served as president of the Jefferson County Chapter of the NAACP for the past 50 years. At the start of the ...

Along with making several small revisions to a newly revised 2045 Jefferson County Comprehensive Plan, the county commission voted 4-1 last week to strike a controversial goal related to “principal ...

As you march today as an expression of freedom, think back to the American Civil War 1861-1865. Conventional wisdom would ...

I received my first “Mountain State Update” from West Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District representative, Riley Moore. He writes breathlessly, like a teen at his first prom, of his support for ...

I am the vice president of the Association of West Virginia Farmland Protection Boards, which includes 20 county members. I am also on the board of the Land Trust of ...