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RUSTBURG — After a heated discussion lasting almost an hour, the Campbell County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a $73 million fiscal year 2019 budget that includes flat tax rates in a Tuesday night meeting.

BEDFORD — Post-reversion water rate equalization will continue in June after the Bedford Regional Water Authority’s Board of Directors voted to change countywide rates again. Depending on where residents live, rates may increase or decrease.

A federal appeals court has ordered a halt to construction of the 600-mile Dominion Energy-led Atlantic Coast Pipeline, following a legal challenge by environmental opponents who argued a review by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was inadequate.

An Appomattox woman will serve 10 years in prison for helping to traffic methamphetamine into Central Virginia.

The Patriotic Peacock on Main Street will close at the end of the month.

Law enforcement officials from across the Lynchburg region gathered at College Hill Baptist Church on Tuesday for a memorial service honoring police officers killed in the line of duty last year.

A preliminary report from the Virginia Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond has found that the deaths of a mother and her adult daughter in a Lovingston apartment complex in February were caused by accidental drug overdoses.

WASHINGTON - Gina Haspel appears to have secured enough votes to be confirmed as the country's next CIA director after stating in a letter to a top Democrat that the agency never should have detained terrorist suspects and employed brutal…

Joe Bean’s soon will open its sixth location in Altavista later this summer.

After almost four years in business as a food truck, Mama Crockett’s Cider Doughnuts plans to open its first brick-and-mortar location on Fifth Street.