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More than 100 city residents spent Saturday scattered around Lynchburg clearing litter from roads, sidewalks and ditches as part of the new “Love Where You Live” community cleanup.

Large turnout seen in both Charlottesville and Albemarle caucuses

When the Downtown Lynchburg Association conducted a survey in 2016 of downtown residents, business owners, city officials and others about the growing central shopping district, concerns about a lack of parking came up again and again.

Brad Buchanan, a volunteer firefighter who has served Campbell County for more than 40 years, was making his way to Timberlake Road for dinner last Sunday when the rain started coming down so hard he couldn’t see out of his…

The Lynchburg region grew by nearly 9,000 people between 2010 and 2017, from 267,654 to 276,197 residents, representing a more than 3 percent increase in population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Liberty University engineering program continues to take shape with the coming addition of a new dean and a grant to boost LU’s Center for Energy Research & Education in Bedford County, which is slated to become home to the…

Miller Park’s distinct 18-sided Aviary has been a city staple for more than a century, and after its current renovation is complete, city of Lynchburg officials hope it will remain for another hundred years or more.

On Friday evening, a group of more than a dozen largely skeptical residents took a tour of the crumbling former Seven Hills School on Rivermont to hear more information about the proposed plan to turn it into 22 apartment units.

When a tornado tore through the Lynchburg region Sunday night, it caused more than $30 million in damages and destroyed dozens of homes but caused zero reported local fatalities despite confusion about warnings sent out by the National Weather Service…

Local and state agencies are offering tornado-affected residents ways to dispose of storm debris.