Authorities report that at approximately 11:38 p.m., a Chevrolet Silverado was traveling southbound on I-79 near the 9-mile marker when it exited the roadway and entered a construction zone. The ... Read More

WSAZ has reported on four crashes at the I64 / I-77 split in the past three months. Read More

A semitruck has fallen off Interstate 64 / 77 in downtown Charleston, coming to rest in the 600 block of Summers Street. The incident occurred at about 5:45 a.m. Wednesday, according to Metro 911 ... Read More

The east- and southbound lanes of Interstate 64 / 77, respectively, are closed after a semitruck fell off the roadway in downtown Charleston early Wednesday morning, coming to rest in the 600 block of ... Read More

Rescue dog Hennessy was reunited with her family a week after her owner's death. Here's how she made it back home to Iowa after a fatal West Virginia crash. (ARLM) ... Read More

Hennessey was reunited with her family Monday, one week after the June 23 crash. She was riding in the cab of the tractor-trailer with her owner, Jeffrey Simons, 62, of Wellsburg, Iowa, when he lost ... Read More

Editor's Note: This story has been updated with the latest information. SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) - One fatality was confirmed after a tractor-trailer and car crashed on I-64 near South ... Read More

Editor's Note: This story has been updated with the latest information. SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) - One fatality was confirmed after a tractor-trailer and car crashed on I-64 near South ... Read More

The victim has been identified, and a dog was rescued from a fatal semitruck crash involving two passenger vehicles that shut down westbound traffic for nine hours on Interstate 64 westbound in the ... Read More

One person is dead in a semi-truck crash involving at least one vehicle that has shut down westbound traffic on Interstate 64 west on June 23, 2026. Westbound traffic is being diverted off Interstate ... Read More

Editor's Note: This story has been updated with the latest information. SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) - One fatality was confirmed after a tractor-trailer and car crashed on I-64 near South ... Read More

Editor's Note: This story has been updated with the latest information. SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) - One fatality was confirmed after a tractor-trailer and car crashed on I-64 near South ... Read More

It happened on the northbound / westbound side of the interstate near the Greenbrier Street exit, just before the I-64 / 77 split in Charleston. Read More

We have a traffic alert for drivers who travel the interstate system through Charleston at the Interstate 77 / Interstate 79 split. Read More

A person was taken to the hospital after being struck by a vehicle on Interstate 64, dispatchers said. Read More

A tanker has rolled over on Interstate 64 East in Kanawha County.The crash was reported at mile marker 48 near Institute shortly after noon on Wednesday, accor ... Read More

CHARLESTON, WV (WVNS) - The West Virginia Governor's Highway Safety Program (GHSP) has announced that 2024 proved to be a remarkable year for the Mountain State. According to a press release, total ... Read More

WCHS ABC 8 provides local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, notices of events and items of interest in the community, sports and entertainment programming for Charleston and nearby towns and ... Read More

Youth aging out of foster care in West Virginia need help with obtaining housing and a vehicle, learning life skills and accessing mental healthcare, according to a new survey of services. The ... Read More

Pothole patching to affect travel on I-64 West in Kanawha County on Thursday Pothole patching will close a portion of Interstate 64 in Kanawha County on Thursday, transportation officials said.The ... Read More

KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) - If you travel on Interstate 79 near Charleston, prepare for a new road work project soon. The West Virginia Department of Transportation said work begins Monday, May 4, ... Read More

Crews in Kanawha County are responding to a motorcycle crash on I-64 in Charleston. According to Kanawha County Metro 911 dispatchers, the crash happened just ... Read More

One person was taken to the hospital. Read More

MASON COUNTY, W.Va. (WOWK) - Emergency Management Director Jeremy Bryant confirmed that one-lane of traffic has reopened along Rt. 62, Charleston Road, in the area of dead man's curve in Mason County. Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) - Engineers have closed a bridge in order to conduct a bridge inspection. This closure will cause traffic to detour until work has been completed. According to the West ... Read More

WVDOH accepted bids Feb. 10 and 12 for 24 construction projects, including repaving I-79 from Charleston to Big Chimney. The 2026 focus is maintaining existing infrastructure and improving interstates ... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The West Virginia Division of Highways is preparing to accept construction bids for the next stretch of Corridor H, a new segment planned from Wardensville to the Virginia state ... Read More

Drivers headed east on Interstate 64 in Charleston, West Virginia should expect daytime closures on the Fort Hill Bridge over the Kanawha River on Nov. 11-13, 2025. Read More

Drivers headed east on Interstate 64 in Charleston, West Virginia should expect daytime closures on the Fort Hill Bridge over the Kanawha River on Nov. 11-13, 2025. Read More

Two lanes of I-64 are shut down in South Charleston after a crash Saturday afternoon. According to Metro 911, the crash was reported by the entrance to Montrose ... Read More

West Virginia State Police are searching for the driver of a tractor trailer accused of hitting and killing a man on the West Virgi ... Read More

A mobile home caused a traffic jam for some drivers on I-64 East Thursday. According to Cabell County dispatchers, the call came in around 11:50 a.m. that a ... Read More

The West Virginia Division of Highways announced Tuesday that it has accepted bids for a project to extend the life of the bridge deck on the Eugene A. Carter Memorial Bridge. The bridge, which is the ... Read More

The westbound center and fast lanes are closed on Interstate 64 across the Fort Hill Bridge in Charleston to repair a three-by-three-foot hole through the bridge deck, Wednesday, July 23, 2025. The ... Read More

Two westbound lanes of Interstate 64 are closed through Friday, July 11, 2025, for repairs on a large pothole on the Fort Hill Bridge in Charleston. One lane remains open, but traffic is moving slowly ... Read More

'?A pothole event'? on the Fort Hill Bridge is impacting the left lanes of Interstate 64 West, just beyond the Oakwood Road exit, the West Virginia Division of Highways reported Wednesday night. The ... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Doug Skaff Jr., a West Virginia newspaper executive and former Democratic legislative leader, died Tuesday following an accident on Interstate 79. He was 48. Read More

Newspaper executive and former West Virginia lawmaker Doug Skaff Jr. dies in highway accident at 48. June 13, 2025. CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Doug Skaff Jr., a West Virginia newspaper executive and ... Read More

Doug Skaff Jr., a former state delegate and the president of HD Media, which publishes the Charleston Gazette-Mail, died June 10, 2025, in a vehicle crash in Lewis County, West Virginia. He was 48. Read More

WCHS ABC 8 provides local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, notices of events and items of interest in the community, sports and entertainment programming for Charleston and nearby towns and ... Read More

WCHS ABC 8 provides local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, notices of events and items of interest in the community, sports and entertainment programming for Charleston and nearby towns and ... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The West Virginia Division of Highways is conducting a bid letting for 30 projects on Tuesday. One of the 30 up for bid is a project to rebuild Interstate 79 '?from the ... Read More

CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) - A morning accident has affected traffic on I-64 between the Cross Lanes and Nitro exits. According to officials on the scene, the accident occurred in the westbound lanes with ... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) - More progress is being reported on West Virginia's number one highway project, but there is still an important section of Corridor H that needs to be done. Read More

The Charleston County Coroner's Office has announced that a man died nearly a month after being involved in a car crash. Read More

John Lucas, 31, and Kristeena Bosarge, 28, were arrested after confronting a man over a sold vehicle title at the Leeds Avenue DMV in North Charleston, SC. Read More

An empty building frame that sits under Interstate 64 will be the home of the new farmers market in South Charleston. South Charleston Mayor Frank Mullens said, '?We are getting pretty close. We are ... Read More

South Charleston is located on the I-64 expressway at highway US-60, approximately two miles west of Charleston, West Virginia, and two miles east of Dunbar, West Virginia, and three miles east of ... Read More

Dammed upstream at Sutton Lake, flooding on the Elk is rare. Clendenin is located on highway US-119 approximately 20 miles northeast of Charleston, West Virginia, 20 miles southwest of Clay, West ... Read More

Charleston, WV (February 15 ... and we hope for a full and speedy recovery. Highway crashes on I-64 and other major interstates in West Virginia often lead to severe injuries and significant traffic ... Read More

A two-vehicle crash with injuries occurred Wednesday morning on Greenbrier St at the southbound entrance to I-64, | Contact Police Accident Reports (888) 657-1460 for help if you were in this accident ... Read More

Emergency crews responded to an injury crash at the Lee St exit on Interstate 64 East late Wednesday afternoon. The | Contact Police Accident Reports (888) 657-1460 for help if you were in this ... Read More

A man drove a vehicle into a building on West Virginia State Capitol complex grounds Monday afternoon. The Charleston Police Department said the man drove into the Central Chiller Plant on California ... Read More

KANAWHA COUNTY, WV (WOWK) - One person is dead after a four-vehicle crash at a notoriously dangerous intersection on US-119 near Alum Creek, according to South Charleston Police Capt. Read More

Patrons of a Charleston bar say a drunk man started picking fights and eventually rammed another patron with a vehicle ... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - All Interstate 77 northbound traffic was being detoured through downtown Charleston Friday morning following a tractor trailer wreck. The crash happened at around 3:40 a.m. near ... Read More

Charleston, WV (January 2, 2025) - Emergency crews responded to an accident with injuries on Kanawha Blvd W in Charleston early Thursday ... many resulting in injuries. The West Virginia Department of ... Read More

Emergency responders were dispatched to a traffic accident with injuries on I-79 northbound at the Mink Shoals exit | Contact Police Accident Reports (888) 657-1460 for help if you were in this ... Read More

The West Virginia Governor's Highway Safety Program (GHSP) is working with local law enforcement statewide during the state Click It or Ticket high-visibility enforcement mobilization that runs from ... Read More

A lockdown has been lifted at the West Virginia State University campus, almost three hours after police began searching for a suspect following a stolen-vehicle pursuit. Read More

Law enforcement officers are searching for a suspect that fled the scene of a crash following a vehicle pursuit in Kanawha County Tuesday evening.Officers were ... Read More

The westbound lanes of I-64 are closed near Cross Lanes due to a crash involving two tractor-trailers. According to Kanawha County 911 dispatchers, the crash ... Read More

CHARLESTON, WV (WVNS) - Multiple traffic projects throughout West Virginia were part of a bid letting on Tuesday, June 11, 2024. The projects span across various counties in the Mountain State, ... Read More

UPDATE: (3:40 P.M. Thursday, June 27) - All lanes of I-77 South are now reopened after a crash near Sissonville this morning, According to West Virginia 511. CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) - A portion of I-77 ... Read More

A 76-year-old West Virginia man died in a rafting accident on the Bitterroot River near Woodside Cutoff on Monday, June 24. Roger Lee Booth of Charleston, West Virginia, was fishing from a raft that ... Read More

Ravalli County Sheriff Steve Holton says Roger Lee Booth of Charleston, West Virginia drowned in the incident which happened near Woodside Cutoff. The accident happened when a raft Booth was fishing ... Read More

A minivan carrying 14 puppies hit a utility pole and rolled over in Connecticut. The crash in Woodstock happened at about 6 a.m. Thursday on a rural road. The driver ... Read More

Law enforcement officials say the recent sentencing of Jasper Wemh marks a significant milestone in a four-indictment drug trafficking organization case ... Read More

CHARLESTON - All West Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles services are back online after a mainframe issue impacting multiple agencies has been resolved, the state Department of Transportation ... Read More

KANAWHA COUNTY, WV (WOWK) - A single-vehicle crash at the Institute exit ramp in the westbound lanes of I-64 has closed the ramp and two lanes. According to dispatchers, the slow and middle lanes at ... Read More

I-64 westbound is closed on the Dunbar-South Charleston bridge due to a crash involving a tractor-trailer. Kanawha County Metro 911 says the westbound lanes will be ... Read More

Cleanup is expected to stretch into Friday evening after a tractor-trailer crashed on Interstate 79 in Kanawha County Friday afternoon. The truck skidded on its side between the Elkview and Clendenin ... Read More

For the second time in less than a week, a wreck in the Interstate 64 work zone in Putnam County slowed traffic to a crawl. The latest wreck saw a box truck skidding on its side in the westbound lanes ... Read More

SOUTH CHARLESTON - GreenPower Motor Company Inc., announced the appointment of Matheny Commercial EV as its dealer for commercial vehicle sales in West Virginia. '?With more than a century of ... Read More

- The southbound lanes of I-77 / 64 are closed this morning near the West Virginia State Capitol. A tractor trailer hauling paper caught fire near the 35th Street exit on the highway about 4:30 a ... Read More

CHARLESTON - Interstate construction is going to slow commutes into West Virginia's capital city for about the next three months. WCHS-TV reported Tuesday that delays are expected into ... Read More

Two women were taken to the hospital early Monday morning after a crash on Interstate 79. A West Virginia state trooper at the scene said a car and a construction work truck were involved in the ... Read More

CHARLESTON - The West Virginia Department of Transportation next week will hold a job fair in anticipation of the road projects financed by the $1.6 billion bond approved in November. Read More

Federal officials are investigating why a gas pipeline exploded just feet away from Interstate 77 north of Charleston, W. Va. West Virginia road crews are repairing Interstate Highway 77, about 15 ... Read More