POUND — Town Council voted Tuesday to seek proposals from accounting firms to perform the past four fiscal year audits. Town Attorney Greg Baker detailed that although the...

Marsh Regional Blood Center will conduct a public blood drive Wednesday, May 25, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., at Sugar Hill Cidery, Norton. For more information about scheduling a...

WISE — At its May 10 meeting, the county School Board set May 23 as the date to vote on the fiscal 2022-23 budget. Because the state budget has yet to be passed, school...

WISE — The county School Board learned May 10 that new, state-mandated tests have granted multiple students leniency when taking the end-of-year Standards of Learning...

The authentic Southwest Virginia –– this is what native Big Stone Gap playwright and co-founder of the Shoestring Theatre Company, Amelia Townsend,...

POUND — Mayor Stacey Carson requested she be reimbursed for multiple expenditures at the Tuesday Town Council meeting. Carson asked the town to reimburse her for paying...

WISE — Lonesome Pine Airport’s runway will undergo an approximately $12 million rehabilitation project that will persist from June into...

Wise County saw 33 new COVID-19 cases between Monday and yesterday. The county’s total number of COVID cases since spring 2020 increased from 10,319 to 10,352 in three...

A Norton man has now been indicted for alleged murder in the death of his 4-year-old son. Wednesday, a Wise County grand jury handed down one...

Local U.S. Forest Service recreation sites are about to open for the season. The Cane Patch campground and the Phillips Creek day use area are scheduled to open May 21,...

NORTON — The School Board learned May 9 that John I. Burton High School was ranked 15th on the 100 Best W!se High Schools list, placing ahead of large schools in Virginia...

County supervisors last week named county attorney Karen Mullins to serve on a planned “regional improvement commission” associated with tax revenue from the Bristol Hard...

The deadline to pay the first half of Wise County 2022 real estate taxes is May 31, according to Treasurer Delores Smith. After the May 31 due date, penalty will be added...