A Wise County grand jury has indicted several people on charges alleging violence, sex crimes, illegal drug activity, theft and more. Those indicted Feb. 19...

Wise County and Norton education leaders are watching General Assembly deliberations closely as they develop proposed school budgets for fiscal 2020-21. In a Feb. 10...

A Virginia Senate committee has killed one of the most controversial gun control measures put before the 2020 General Assembly. House Bill 961 (Mark Levine, D-Alexandria),...

Central High School band director Dalton Matthew Bates has been arrested in eastern Kentucky on charges of possessing child pornography. According...

Two bills before the General Assembly propose shutting down the Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center roughly 37 years before the end of its...

A woman involved in a Feb. 3 shooting incident that left one man dead has been charged with three alleged crimes. Marshea Noel Absher, 29, of...

Norton City Council has decided to pursue several traffic pattern changes affecting vehicles traveling toward or out of downtown. However, council...

Norton School Board has terminated the employment of former Burton High School football coach and teacher James Adams. The board voted 3-2 Friday to fire Adams following...

Investigators continue to piece together details of a Feb. 3 shooting incident that left one man dead and two people suffering gunshot wounds. Thursday, Wise County...

An Appalachia man faces the potential of an effective life sentence after pleading guilty to 60 counts of possessing child pornography. Michael Lewis Varner, 33, pleaded...

A man is dead and two people are suffering from gunshot wounds following a Feb. 3 incident. Wise County Central Dispatch received a 911 call shortly after midnight from a...

Monday began with ‘winter wonderland’ conditions at the summit level of High Knob amid wet snow and rime ice, says photographer R.J. Rose of...

The U.S. Forest Service seeks the public’s help in reporting and preventing illegal activities that are damaging Clinch Ranger District...

A section of the Spearhead Trails multi-use trails system has received $222,000 in federal abandoned mine land reclamation funds. Local officials...

The development of a new industrial park between Norton and Wise will receive nearly $1.8 million of additional funds. Friday, local officials...