A statue of civil rights hero Barbara Johns will be unveiled later this fall to stand in the U.S. Capitol.

Democrat Lily Franklin is challenging Republican incumbent Chris Obenshain. Here’s how one day on the campaign trail looked with both candidates.

Rebuilding continues in the Washington County community known as Trail Town USA for its proximity to the Virginia Creeper Trail and the Appalachian Trail.

Johns, whose courage as a teenage Farmville student helped set in motion the Brown v. Board of Education landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision to end school segregation, will join George Washington as ...

If Earle-Sears wins, she will have the least experience of any previous lieutenant governor elected to the state’s top office since Charles Robb in 1981. He had no experience before he served as ...

Danville City Council member Lee Vogler remains hospitalized in North Carolina almost two months after he was attacked and set on fire.

The job cuts at the yarn maker’s Hillsville plant in Carroll County come just two years after hundreds of layoffs there.

Melanie Protti-Lawrence is the owner and President of Lawrence Brothers Inc. She serves on the board of the Tazewell County ...

There is no — repeat, no — proposal to put a nuclear facility in the county just west of Richmond. However, the county has proposed zoning for a technology district that would allow a small one.

A public hearing will be held Tuesday night on a request to rezone the vacant Washington-Lee Elementary School property in Bristol so developers can repurpose the building into apartments.

The association will have four years to spend the $4 million awarded through the federal Health Resources and Services Administration.

City officials are drafting a multimodal plan that will make it easier to access food, recreation opportunities, health care facilities and other community centers without a car. They’re relying ...