Norton Police Chief James Lane remains in stable condition at Johnson City Medical Center after being shot several times Friday by a shoplifting...

Pound has scheduled a May 25 public hearing on a new budget that does not include a town police department. Police matters and the fiscal 2021-22 budget were dominant...

UPDATE: According to Virginia State Police, Chief James Lane and another officer responded to a shoplifting call shortly after 4 p.m. Lane...

Don’t swim, wade, tube, canoe or kayak your way down parts of the Pound River from Pound toward Dickenson County, says the Virginia Department of Health. Thursday morning,...

Former Pound town hall employee Tamari Rebecca “Tammy” Hayes has been indicted on seven counts of embezzlement. The charges, handed down by the Wise County grand jury...

All the Pound police vehicles and equipment that had been scattered have now been retrieved and accounted for, according to Town Manager Drew Mullins. Meanwhile, Wise...

A proposal to place a marker at the Wise County courthouse to commemorate lynching incidents against Black people has been put on hold. But project organizers and county...

A man from Wise has been arrested after he and a juvenile allegedly stole a county school bus that was found wrecked in Sullivan County,...

Norton School Board has approved a 2021-22 school year budget that exceeds the current spending plan by more than $1 million. The budget will go to public hearing May 4,...

“We’re never going to forget the men and women who dug the coal and built the nation,” President Joe Biden said Jan. 27. “We’re going to do right...

Gov. Ralph Northam is recommending that the federal Appalachian Regional Commission award funds for four initiatives in the coalfields. The governor Monday announced his...

Pound Town Council will rely on the Wise County Sheriff’s Office temporarily while the two remaining members of the town’s police force are placed on the...

A local woman has been convicted on three charges related to an investigation of the 2020 death of her infant son. Sarah Elizabeth Bledsoe, 32, was found guilty today in...

With state funding secured, the Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Authority has created an education and telehealth access fund. The authority approved the action...

A local woman has pleaded guilty to being part of a conspiracy to defraud the government of nearly $182,500 in unemployment benefits. Brittany McReynolds, 32, of St. Paul,...