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Nelson County supervisors will consider again next month a request for a special-use permit to construct three buildings on Virginia 151 that could house a nanobrewery and other businesses.

Property transfers for Lynchburg and the surrounding counties, plus building permits for Bedford County.

Peakland Preschool Head Room Mom, Gemma Helbling, who owns Virginia Garden Supply with her husband Philip, has continued a tradition of pulling her children to the school located just down the street from the business on Boonsboro Road in a…

Most everyone in the counties of Amherst and Campbell and the city of Lynchburg has been affected in some way by the tornado that caused about 26 miles of devastation April 15.

7 p.m. “The [April 15] tornado first touched down in northwest Campbell County, just south of [Waterlick] Road and east of Timberlake Road … with an initial path width of about 100 yards.” (National Weather Service report, April 18, 2018)

After an almost three-month inquiry into the operations of the Reusens hydroelectric plant on the James River that ended with inconclusive flow data, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has ordered dam owner Eagle Creek Renewable Energy to repair malfunctioning sensor…

With the election for Lynchburg City Council’s three at-large seats set for Tuesday, hopeful Beau Wright is head and shoulders above the other six candidates in campaign fundraising.

As Sarah Muminovic approached what once was Camp Sacajawea’s archery range Saturday, she was overcome with emotion. For Sacajawea’s day camp director, the destruction was devastating.

As Nakeema Patrick approached the scene of a violent altercation with a firearm in her hands, she was uneasy.