MINGO COUNTY, W.Va. (WCHS) — The southern Coalfields are dealing with major flooding along the Tug fork River and its smaller rivers after battling flash flooding on overnight Saturday into Sunday.

See photos from recovery and cleanup efforts in Welch, McDowell County, West Virginia on March 4, 2025, following flooding ...

The Tug Fork watershed is that it has no federal flood control dams to hold back runoff the way neighboring watersheds do.

WILLIAMSON, WV (WOWK) — The Friends of the Tug Fork River group continued their efforts to make sure the river stays ...

WELCH, W.Va. – Residents of Welch are grieving the loss of a husband and wife and their young grandchild who were swept away in the flooded Tug Fork River. All three bodies have now been ...

affecting Lincoln and Cabell counties Little Sandy River at Grayson, affecting Carter and Greenup counties Tug Fork River at Kermit affecting Wayne, Larence, Martin and Mingo counties The ...

A search was underway Monday in McDowell County for three missing people while recovery efforts were underway there and across West Virginia and Virginia after a combination of snow melts and heavy ...

Water levels at a gauge on the Tug Fork River at Williamson, West Virginia, peaked just three feet shy of the region’s flood of record, from April 1977. But the impacts were far worse and more ...