The opportunity to plunder along the route, far from civil authority, was extremely attractive. River piracy was already commonplace on the lower Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and, from about 1790 to ...

CUNARD, W.Va. — Tales of a 'monster' said to haunt the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve in West Virginia have surfaced in recent years, and a lodging entrepreneur who's developed a ...

FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Far from the city lights that shimmer about its mouth at the Golden Triangle at Pittsburgh, the Monongahela River rises more than 200 miles away in some of the most remote reaches in ...

The following tale of a young girl's encounter with a supposed witch in the highlands along the Potomac River has inspired readers since it was penned by poet Emily Dale Werner and published in 1960.

A photographer snaps pictures of the underside of the New River Gorge Bridge.

The announcement follows the region's first snowfall, which descended on the mountain, one of the highest peaks in the Allegheny Mountains, in mid-October. The first snow of the 2024-2025 ski season ...

CLAY, W.Va. — In 2020, Kentucky fiddler Tyler Childers released his fourth studio album, Long Violent History, a collection of traditional fiddle tunes. Among the selections is his interpretation of ...