BIG STONE GAP — Virginia government must put more dollars behind its stated good intentions to help revitalize and diversify this region’s economy. That was a dominant...

Schools and local governments in Appalachian Power Co.’s Wise and Dickenson county service area could soon benefit from a regulatory breakthrough involving solar power,...

Coeburn Town Council intends to raise water and sewer service rates in the fiscal year that begins July 1. Council has set a public hearing on the fiscal 2021-22 budget...

St. Paul Town Council aims to increase water and sewer service rates in the fiscal 2021-22 budget. A public hearing on the budget that takes effect July 1 is scheduled for...

Pound continues to whittle away at fixing leaks in its sewer system while talking with the Wise County Public Service Authority about its impending takeover of the...

Plans are moving forward in Wise for making major changes to the road that leads from U.S. 23 to downtown. Town Council on May 25 received a report from town Planner Laura...

Norton seeks a $600,000 community development block grant to continue a regional small business recovery assistance project. The city is pursuing the funds on behalf of...

This morning, Pound Town Council had to choose between a hard decision it has been putting off and a threat it could no longer ignore. Council agreed to enter talks about...

Norton Police Chief James Lane is leaving a rehabilitation facility and coming home tomorrow. Meanwhile, the man accused of shooting Lane multiple...

The Wise County grand jury has indicted an Ohio truck driver for a Feb. 24 crash that killed a Big Stone Gap man and injured another person. Travis Lee Tolliver, 30, of...

Not all the news coming out of Pound is negative. During Town Council’s May 18 meeting, Mayor Stacey Carson listed several positive developments. A music store is about...

Pound’s sewage problem has become a moment-by-moment evolving crisis. During an emergency meeting Thursday night, Town Council approved a set of engineering and...

Now that Pound no longer has police officers, the town has been struggling to comply with a court order to put a law enforcement officer in charge of safeguarding the...