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This afternoon nearly 13,500 Appalachian Power Company customers in Lynchburg and the counties of Amherst and Bedford remain without power, according to the company. The Southside Electric Cooperative is also reporting thousands of customers affected by power outages with more…

After receiving feedback from volunteers involved with the city’s Poverty to Progress initiative, the grant process has been “put off to the side” so committees have more time to develop their applications for funding, according to Mayor Joan Foster.

The city of Lynchburg is hunting for a new registrar, but the upcoming elections will be taken care of by a familiar face until a replacement is found.

Before stepping on the risers to sing “You’re a Grand Old Flag” with his classmates, second-grader Vaden Hunt, 8, was a little nervous.

More than 10,000 electric-utility customers in the Lynchburg area are without power this morning as high winds sweep across the region.

A conversation about the ongoing opioid crisis in the Lynchburg area drew more than 200 people to Horizon Therapeutic Day Treatment center Thursday night.

Throughout Leesville Road Elementary School on Thursday, students learned from Dr. Seuss that “the more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go” during the school’s parent involvement night…

Thanks to a federal court opinion issued Thursday, tree-felling along the route of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline now will begin on more than a dozen properties in Virginia.

The response team moves swiftly, guns drawn, as it approaches the old Thomas Road Baptist Church.

After much back and forth between HumanKind and Westminster Canterbury regarding a request to rezone 47 acres of HumanKind’s 166-acre property, the Lynchburg Planning Commission voted to table the discussion until March 14 so the two parties could work out…