McDowell County, the southernmost county in West Virginia (WV), was created in 1858 and named in honor of James McDowell, the governor of Virginia from 1824 until 1844. Its county seat is at Welch.

Parks and hiking trails in Catawba, Burke and McDowell counties are still ... in the Linville Gorge area of Burke County have fully reopened: Wiseman’s View, Bynum Bluff, Babel Tower, Brushy ...

BECKLEY, WV (WVNS ... One McDowell County school that is in the middle of this process is not allowing the doom and gloom set in. WVU Tech’s Homecoming weekend was not just fun for all the grownups.

WELCH, W.Va. (WVVA) - Check out the highlights of the McDowell county rivalry between the River View Lady Raiders and Mount ...

WELCH, W.Va. (WVVA) - On Thursday night in Welch, there was a county rivalry matchup between Mount View and River View. Some may call it the “Battle for McDowell County,” or the “Battle of ...

On a late spring day in 2022, Rev. Brad Davis was riding along the twisting roads of McDowell County ... His view is that the state’s political leaders have no sense of how to make things work in the ...

Black herbalism: How one local woman is keeping the traditions alive WVU Tech has borrowed Summers County’s black history exhibit to show their students the African American experience in southern ...

A tributary of the New River, the Piney Creek forms a steep-walled gorge where it descends through the north-central highlands of Raleigh County ... Piney View is located six miles southeast of Mount ...

Parliament, in the view of the Fincastle men ... In Virginia history, Fincastle was a gigantic, short-lived county that existed from 1772 to 1776, encompassing western Virginia, part of southern West ...

MCDOWELL COUNTY, N.C. (WSPA) – Firefighters caught a bit of good luck on Friday and made gains to contain and extinguish a wildfire burning in McDowell County. According to McDowell County ...

Crews have started removing Hurricane Helene debris from streams and rivers in McDowell County. The U.S. Army Corps of ...

On Friday morning, the McDowell County Sheriff's Office responded to a reported bomb threat at the McDowell County Courthouse in downtown Marion.As a precautionary measure, the courthouse and ...