Amid municipal troubles, Martinsville candidates talk about moving the city forward at Cardinal News forum

Tazewell County’s new fire company begins, with a paid department to support it on the way

The merged brigades just became operational to help address challenges in recruitment, funding and training.

Russia releases an American prisoner but not the one from Salem. Warner blasts Trump envoy for 'disgusting' flattery of Putin.

Salem High graduate Chuck Zimmerman has now spent more than a year in Russian custody after being intercepted in international waters.

Deciphering a complex race: Republicans run against Republicans in Lynchburg as Democrats hope to seize possible city council opportunity

Voters are energized, candidates say.

RiverStreet Networks, which lost its contracts to deploy broadband in multiple Virginia localities, files for bankruptcy

The company says it will continue to serve the customers that it has connected to its service.

Consultant: Western Virginia is on the data center map. Landowners should set the terms.

A county, an industrial development authority, a foundation or a nonprofit that controls a developable site does not need to wait for a developer's proposal. It can write its terms first and then invite developers to compete to meet them. If it leases the land rather than selling it, those terms stop being promises made at a public hearing. They become lease covenants, enforceable for decades.