Ice cream season has officially arrived. Whether you’re in the mood for a hand-dipped waffle cone, a fresh-scooped ice cream ...

I’ve discovered an amazing thrifters’ paradise just up the road in Hurt. Open once a month, White Barn Vintage has become one ...

Anyone who’s dined at The Inn at Little Washington understands with surety that this place is unlike any other. As the only ...

Here, we coat chicken with spices common to Cajun cooking, like dried thyme and cayenne pepper. Then, instead of using the traditional method of searing in a cast-iron pan, we char it on the grill. 1.

Discover the sustainable hügelkultur gardening method, building mounds that self-compost, retain moisture, enhance soil ...

American-style seafood restaurant Coasters opens this summer at Goodhue Boat Company, Blackwater, offering high-quality ...

Smith Mountain Gap, as seen July 15, 1960, was an isolated place surrounded by farmland when it was chosen as the site of an innovative hydroelectric plant built by Appalachian Power Co. It wasn't ...

The foundation for the dam that today holds back Smith Mountain Lake was laid more than 500 million years ago. In the late Pre-Cambrian era, long before the appearance of dinosaurs, fish, land plants ...

Emma Coleman 540-981-3198 Jul 30, 2022 Jul 30, 2022 Updated Sep 7, 2023 A new statewide, searchable cold case database sparked a new lead in a 19-year-old murder investigation late last month. “I just ...

Smith Mountain Dam is known as a pump-storage facility. That’s in contrast to a run-of-river dam such as the much smaller 50-megawatt Leesville Dam 17 miles east, where water simply flows through ...

Investigators still hope to locate a body from a 1980 murder and the killer or killers from a 2009 double slaying.

Since that time, Frederick said he wasn’t actively working on the project, but he slowly began accumulating items to be used for construction. He purchased a large inventory of African mahogany ...