Huntington Crowned Winner of America’s Best Communities Competition

Huntington, West Virginia has proudly claimed the title of “America’s Best Community” after being named the Grand Prize winner in the America’s Best Communities competition, a $10 million community revitalization campaign sponsored by Frontier Communications, DISH Network, CoBank and The Weather Channel. Launched in September 2014 to inspire revitalization and growth in small towns and…

Four Heroes Win SBA’s 2017 Phoenix Award for Outstanding Disaster Recovery Efforts

A South Carolina mayor who championed his city’s post-disaster economic recovery, a volunteer who extended herself to support a small West Virginia town’s rebuilding after a flood, a Texas business owner who rebuilt his company after a devastating flood, and a Northern California public official leading the relief efforts for a fire-ravaged county have been…

Advantage Valley to Assist Firms Affected by Coal Downturn

Advantage Valley, Inc., a regional economic development organization promoting the Charleston and Huntington areas, has received a grant of $800,000 from the Robert C. Byrd Institute, which was funded through the POWER initiative and the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation to improve the economic viability of manufacturing and related businesses that have been negatively affected due…