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In the past year since Mayor Joan Foster kicked off the city’s Poverty to Progress initiative, the high-profile move to try and improve the financial status of its poorest residents has garnered a lot of attention.

Days after a Lynchburg man was killed outside a home on Madison Street, community members and police officers returned to the site of the crime to pledge to work together and to pray for peace.

If you’ve noticed what appears to be a surveillance vehicle patrolling the streets of Lynchburg these past few weeks, there’s no need to worry — no one is spying on you.

After almost four decades of work, the city of Lynchburg is set to embark on the final project of its long-running mission to update the city’s wastewater system to improve water quality in the James River.

Tim Hayden, a retired police officer in Bedford County. Arelia Langhorne, a Lynchburg lawyer. M.W. Thornhill, Lynchburg’s first black mayor. The Rev. Thomas Tweedy, a former slave and educator in Campbell and Bedford counties who mortgaged his personal property to…

A corporate decision by Amtrak could halt the Norfolk & Western Class J 611 steam engine in its tracks, and raises questions as to whether the restored historical treasure will pull excursions again.

SHOPO Nation is looking for volunteers age 25 and above to work with male and female youth ages 10 to 14 during summer basketball and dance programs 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays May 13 through Aug. 5. Programs…

A 70-year-old man died in a Franklin County house fire early Friday after he ran back into the burning building, according to the sheriff's office.

A Lynchburg man arrested earlier this week and charged with accessory after the fact to the homicide of a 22-year-old Appomattox woman decided not to seek bond on Friday.

Eight months after paid parking disappeared from the streets of downtown Lynchburg due to opposition from visitors and business owners, another proposal to add pay stations is back on the table.