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A three-vehicle collision in Madison Heights sent one person to the hospital and briefly blocked traffic Thursday morning.

After 4-year-old Noah Chucoski finished his flying creation made out of a clothespin, white cupcake holders and a green pipe cleaner, he joined five other children testing their inventions in a portable wind tunnel.

The Atlantic Coast Pipeline got a rare rejection Wednesday from federal officials who nixed a request from the divisive Dominion Energy-led project to push past seasonal tree-cutting restrictions that are intended to protect endangered bats and migratory birds.

After their big electoral losses last year, Virginia Republicans have plenty of things to worry about in the 2018 congressional races. In theory, the conservative 6th District, where President Donald Trump won almost 60 percent of the vote in 2016,…

RUSTBURG — The Region 2000 Services Authority Board could not reach a consensus on the authority’s proposed $6.8 million fiscal year 2019 budget in a Wednesday meeting.

RUSTBURG —After a marathon two-day review session of the proposed $9.9 million fiscal year 2019 budget Tuesday and Wednesday nights, Altavista Town Council made more than $134,000 in cuts to the proposed budget and added utility rate increases of 8…

Federal regulators on Wednesday denied a request from Atlantic Coast Pipeline developers for more time to cut down trees along the route, potentially setting the project back in certain areas.

During his three-day tour of the New River Valley, Bedford County and Lynchburg, U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., spoke to a group of about 35 people in the Bedford Welcome Center on Wednesday afternoon to brief them on the latest…

The case against a Lynchburg man charged with shooting at his estranged wife was dropped Wednesday due to his death over the weekend.

Two new historical markers, honoring the life of a U.S. diplomat who helped 1,200 Jews escape the Holocaust and the legacy of an African-American school, are set to be erected in the Hill City later this year.