Our local high school football teams competed in their respective region championship games, with the winners advancing to the VHSL state semifinals.

Virginia’s Gateway Region Economic Development Organization announced Thursday that its board of directors voted three additional Virginia localities — the city of Emporia, along with Greensville and ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — It’s what teams worked all offseason for—the playoffs. Entering this week’s Region Semifinals, every team has a playoff win under their belt, and all eyes are set on a Region ...

Danville is looking in a new direction, literally. Take the new YMCA being built downtown. “People have noted it’s the first building in 100 years that’s oriented toward the river instead of away,” ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The United States Postal Service (USPS) Office of the Inspector General has ranked Virginia the fourth-worst region in the U.S. for on-time mail delivery by the agency.

Sam Brown covers high school sports as well as NCAA football and basketball. Sam began his professional career as a high school sports reporter for The Tennessean in Nashville where he covered boys ...

The drought warning for the Shenandoah region of Virginia has been officially lifted after more than 12 inches of rain in some areas in a 30-day period. Heavy precipitation, notably from Tropical ...

The Southeastern Public Service Authority (Virginia) is making changes to the way it collects recyclables, and it is unlikely that the previous method of curbside collection will be a part of the new ...

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality wants to make a plan for the ocean. That may sound silly or seem impossible — the Atlantic is a vast and open expanse, after all — but the effort has ...

Karen Grady, a first-grade teacher at A.R. Ware Elementary School, was named Virginia Region 5 Teacher of the Year. Grady is a former firefighter and incorporates her experience into her teaching ...