Mornings are again filled with birdsong.
The House of Delegates and the state Senate have adjourned the 60-day legislative session. Here is a look at where key issues stand.
Let the rematch begin, voters in Lynchburg and surrounding counties decided at the ballot box during Super Tuesday.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin vows to fight for $2 billion arena project, calling its exclusion from the proposed budget a "colossal mistake."
The former representative of the 59th District in the Virginia House of Delegates was found not guilty of felony hit and run and malicious wounding Tuesday afternoon.
When I was a cub reporter in my 20s, earning next to nothing, I still scraped $25 together here and there to donate to environmental organizations and local food banks.
Liberty University faces a $14 million fine from the U.S. Department of Education as part of a settlement agreement with the university for “material and ongoing violations” of the Clery Act relating to its published crime statistics and treatment of sexual assault survivors, according to a …
Three days before Super Tuesday, former President Donald Trump made his pitch for Virginia votes on Saturday by telling a Richmond crowd that “we’re a nation in decline," where illegal immigration is a “a gushing wound.”
Bills to create a legal, regulated retail market for marijuana in Virginia are headed for a governor, Glenn Youngkin, who doesn’t like the idea.
A bluejay-like scream drew my attention to a pair of red-shouldered hawks as they landed on a branch behind our house.
Line of duty benefits Nelson County officials sought for private police departments in the wake of a Wintergreen officer's shooting death were left out of an amended state Senate bill on Feb. 22, but protections for campus police were included.
Democrats merged two bills by agreeing on when sales would begin, how to limit the size of retail shops and how to address Black residents disproportionately harmed by old laws.
The largest utility-scale solar farm project proposed to date in Amherst County in the Piney River area just next to the Nelson County border received the county board of supervisors’ unanimous vote of denial Tuesday.
Skunks are busy looking for love, which means we need to avoid hitting them with our vehicles.
The measure fails to repeat the success of last year's law that required pornography sites to verify a user's age.
The Virginia Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor on Feb. 9 carried over for a year a bill that could place siting approval of large-scale solar farm operations away from localities and into the purview of the State Corporation Commission.
Area legislators got together Saturday morning for a mid-session update to bring their supporters up to speed on what they are working on in the General Assembly.
We heard them first. It’s hard to describe the 18 different vocalizations of sandhill cranes, but Aldo Leopold once wrote:
An Arrington lumber yard erupted in flames early Sunday morning, fire officials said.
The 8-year-old girl is expected to make a full recovery, the resort said.
It isn’t easy being an urban tree.
State health leaders say they have gotten to the bottom of the Office of EMS's financial crisis, in which money was improperly used for years. Law enforcement agencies are investigating.
Madison Heights resident Gloria Witt announced her candidacy Tuesday in seeking the Democratic nomination for Virginia’s 5th Congressional District with a group of supporters by her side.
“Caring for nature isn’t an act of charity. Those mountains are the iron in our blood. Those seas are the water in our skin. Those cloud-strewn skies are the breath in our lungs. Caring for nature isn’t charity. It’s the wisdom to push the knife away from our own tender throats.”
A bill seeking to extend state Line of Duty Act benefits to private police departments, a measure Nelson County officials are lobbying hard for following the June 2023 killing of a Wintergreen law enforcement officer, failed to advance out of a House subcommittee Thursday.
Extensive evidence was presented in Nelson General District Court Wednesday in the case of a Maryland man accused of aggravated murder of a Wintergreen police officer, including testimony from two friends staying with the defendant who said he violently attacked them prior to the June 16 shooting.
We’ve all seen the photos of beached whales with guts full of plastic and sea birds and turtles strangled by all types of plastic.
More and more these days, local governments are saying thanks but no thanks to the big arrays of solar panels that are key to Virginia’s move to a clean energy future.
A Lovingston man could spend up to 21 years in prison after pleading no contest in Nelson Circuit Court on Tuesday.
Attention all cat lovers: please keep your cats indoors.
Lisa Draine tried in vain to convince her fellow board members to vote for a cheaper option.
Jail authority to vote on renovations
Nelson County High School had a good turnout for their opening night of "Mamma Mia!" on March 8.
An amendment to the Virginia Line of Duty Act to include privately employed police officers as beneficiaries, a bill widely supported by Nelson County officials and residents, failed to pass in the Virginia General Assembly’s session.
Students are eligible for outpatient therapy through collaboration between The Madeline Centre and Nelson County Schools
Indigo House, a bed and breakfast, and Bluebird + Co. host a three day, Bookish retreat a few times a year.
Nelson Memorial Library is hosting a raffle fundraiser this month to raise money for different library projects.
Kylene Cook, a legally blind, diabetic amputee, will soon be signed over her new house built by Habitat for Humanity, where she'll have to pay a low interest mortgage.
Amid ongoing mail delivery problems in Virginia, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va. and other members of Virginia’s congressional delegation have written to the United States Postal Service’s Inspector General.
Smoke is a domesticated longhaired spayed female, a complete love and whoever adopts her will most likely be well rewarded with love and appreciation. While Smoke probably will not run up to greet you when you walk into the room, she’s happy for you to come up to her. She’ll sniff your finge…
The largest utility-scale solar farm project proposed to date in Amherst County in the Piney River area just next to the Nelson County border received the county board of supervisors’ unanimous vote of denial Tuesday.
Skunks are busy looking for love, which means we need to avoid hitting them with our vehicles.
The measure fails to repeat the success of last year's law that required pornography sites to verify a user's age.
The Virginia Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor on Feb. 9 carried over for a year a bill that could place siting approval of large-scale solar farm operations away from localities and into the purview of the State Corporation Commission.
Area legislators got together Saturday morning for a mid-session update to bring their supporters up to speed on what they are working on in the General Assembly.
We heard them first. It’s hard to describe the 18 different vocalizations of sandhill cranes, but Aldo Leopold once wrote: