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

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

Three weeks after devastating floods swept through McDowell County, West Virginia on Feb. 15-16, 2025, residents of Welch are ...

DEER LODGE — Sam Carlson told the small but attentive crowd that he understands the skepticism accompanying the prolonged Superfund remediation of the historically beleaguered Clark Fork River. “It’s ...

NWS officials spent Tuesday in several parts of Mingo County -- an area that was hit particularly hard with flooding by the Tug Fork River. NWS members Nick Webb, Megan Kiebler and Simone Lewis ...

GARY, W.Va. — Flood damage in McDowell County is widespread. It’s not just Welch but it’s most every other community that saw damage from last weekend’s flood including the town of Gary ...

On Thursday, Gov. Morrisey reported parts of McDowell County, where three people died, received 4.72 inches of rain in less than 48 hours, which led to the Tug Fork River cresting at 49 feet.

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 ...

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 ...

One of which was the Tug Fork River, where resident Heather Bailey filmed her cousin’s sports car being sent downstream by a powerful river current. In her video, the raging river can be seen slamming ...

Water levels at a gauge on the Tug Fork River at Williamson, West Virginia, peaked just 3 feet shy of the region’s flood of record, from April 1977. But the impacts were far worse and more ...