These J.I. Burton High School fans journeyed six hours to Richmond to see the girls' basketball team put on quite a show in its hard-fought bid for a state championship. The Burton girls battled Su...
Idaho educator selected as MECC president Dr. James Scott Hamilton, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, will become the sixth president of Mountain Empire Community College, according to Dr. Glenn DuBois, chancellor of Virginia’s community colleges. H...
Landfill expansion gets state's green light WISE — The county now has the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality’s blessing to forge ahead with an expansion to its Blackwood landfill. According to a March 2 letter from Thompson &...
WISE — County supervisors have asked county officials to follow in the footsteps of their counterparts in Dickenson and Tazewell counties to apply for financial help to clean tree debris out of cre...
COEBURN — The town is looking for nearly $50,000 to fund an analysis of what areas would be in the path of a flood in the unlikely event that Coeburn's Toms Creek reservoir dam was ever breached. ...
WISE — T.G. Branson, resident engineer for the local Virginia Department of Transportation office, told county supervisors Thursday night that the county’s six-year improvement plan for secondary r...
A Big Stone Gap woman has died from injuries suffered in a head-on collision Friday afternoon near the offices of Central Supply Co., near Andover. Shortly before 1:35 p.m., Virginia State Police ...
RICHMOND — Virginia's General Assembly is the first in the nation to approve legislation that bucks any attempt by President Barack Obama and Congress to implement the national health care overhaul...
RICHMOND — Gov. Bob McDonnell signed into law Wednesday offshore drilling legislation intended to realize his goal of making Virginia the East Coast's energy superpower. The bills supporting offsh...
COEBURN — The Wise County Public Service Authority got a clean bill of financial health, and its finance staff and administration got a heaping helping of praise, during a presentation of the autho...