This has gone from pothole to hellhole. A West Virginia police station is under threat — as it’s about to be swallowed up by a giant sinkhole that opened up in the parking lot due to a water ...

The sinkhole first opened up on June 14 under state highway 20 near the Hinton Police Department in Summers County, West Virginia after a 90-year-old drainage structure collapsed, according to the ...

Last summer, what appeared to be a sinkhole opened up in Hinton, West Virginia close to the Hinton ... it grew to the point that two months later, Summers County Schools were forced to close ...

A massive sinkhole in West ... of Summers County Schools, who added that in-person classes will resume once the temporary bridge has been installed. West Virginia Division of Highways The bridge ...

The eastern region of West Virginia, including Summers County, is made up of karst terrain, which is characterized by limestone or other soluble rocks and is prone to sinkholes, says the West ...