Welch News

When it came to launching her new interactive documentary on McDowell County, West Virginia Day seemed like an obvious choice for Elaine McMillion.

The single-vehicle crash occurred at approximately 4 p.m. near Switchback, according to Trooper J.K. Weiss of the West Virginia State Police Welch detachment.

An interactive documentary film that aims to let the people of McDowell County tell their own stories launches this week, with a website going live Thursday, on West Virginia Day.

Larry Hughes of Kimball may soon have relatives he never knew he had coming out to Kimball to visit him after winning $302,600 on Thursday night's Daily 4 drawing.

Raised by a bipolar, alcoholic father and a bipolar hoarder mother, Jeannette Walls learned to spin good stories out of bad memories , writes the New York Times in a profile.

Three women have been arrested and arraigned as part of a prostitution sting conducted in McDowell County.

Two suspects are wanted by police in McDowell County after they used a stolen vehicle in an attempt to steal an ATM machine from a Welch gas station.

When a train crossing's lights announced an incoming locomotive, a woman and her passengers abandoned a vehicle stuck on the tracks before it was destroyed.

A Mercer County jury last week found a doctor responsible for the death of a McDowell County man and awarded his family $1 million.

WELCH, W.Va. -- Supreme Court Chief Justice Brent Benjamin is in McDowell County to mark the opening of a new Juvenile Drug Court.