West Virginia Newspaper Directory

The Charleston Gazette-Mail, formed when the Gazette and the Daily Mail merged in 2015, is West Virginia's main paper for the Capitol and the Kanawha County courts, and the Herald-Dispatch in Huntington covers the state's second city. The Wheeling Intelligencer and News-Register, the Parkersburg News and Sentinel, the Exponent Telegram in Clarksburg, the Times West Virginian in Fairmont, the Dominion Post in Morgantown, the Journal in Martinsburg, the Register-Herald in Beckley, the Bluefield Daily Telegraph and the Inter-Mountain in Elkins cover their regions, and Mountain State Spotlight and West Virginia Watch cover state government online.

West Virginia newspapers carry the legal notices state law requires for trustee's sales, estates and government actions, publish obituaries for 55 counties, and hold court coverage that pairs with the circuit and magistrate court records held by each county clerk.

Official sources on this page were checked on September 25, 2026.

Find local and statewide newspaper publications for West Virginia. Access news, sports, classified, entertainment, and archived articles.

• The Charleston GazetteEntertainment, classifieds, business and more
• The Herald DispatchMultimedia, sports, jobs and more
• The Intelligencer and Wheeling News RegisterNews, local news, life and more

The Gazette-Mail covers Charleston, state government, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals and the federal court, with back issues from the 1870s onward in the digital archives and a Pulitzer for its opioid reporting. The Herald-Dispatch covers Huntington, Cabell County and Marshall University, the Intelligencer covers the Northern Panhandle, the Dominion Post covers Morgantown and West Virginia University, and the Journal covers the Eastern Panhandle. County weeklies such as the Pocahontas Times, the Hampshire Review and the Nicholas Chronicle carry county commission minutes, sheriff's reports and circuit court notices.

The West Virginia Archives and History Library in Charleston holds newspaper microfilm for every West Virginia newspaper and contributes titles to Chronicling America through the West Virginia Digital Newspaper Project. West Virginia University's Libraries in Morgantown hold the West Virginia and Regional History Center with northern titles, and the Kanawha County Public Library provides free access to the Gazette-Mail archive with a library card and keeps an obituary index.

• Chronicling America, West Virginia newspapersFree digitized West Virginia newspapers from the Library of Congress
• West Virginia Archives and HistoryNewspaper microfilm, state archives and research services
• West Virginia legal noticesStatewide search of legal notices published in West Virginia newspapers

West Virginia law requires trustee's sale notices for foreclosures, notices to creditors in estates, name changes, delinquent tax lists and county commission and municipal notices to be published as Class I, II or III legal advertisements in a qualified newspaper in the county, and the West Virginia Press Association collects them in a statewide search. Obituaries run in most West Virginia papers, daily and weekly, and the Archives and History Library and the Kanawha County library keep obituary indexes. Court coverage matters because West Virginia's circuit and magistrate court records live with each county clerk.

• West Virginia Court RecordsCircuit and magistrate court case searches by county
• West Virginia Vital RecordsBirth, death and marriage certificates
• West Virginia Genealogy SearchArchives, census and family history sources

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