I admit more then some reluctance to celebrate this year’s Indepence Day. Do we have any indepence to honor or celebrate.

Spent more than 22 hours in bed Friday night and Saturday morning after an eye surgeon finished restoring the vision of my right orb to 20/20 vision, completing the last of several operations over ...

Floyd County may lay claim to “The Man Who Moved a Mountain,” but moving mountains and rerouting rivers is business as usual in Grundy, the Buchanan County seat in deep Southwestern Virginia. And at a ...

Enthusiastic fans cheer their Buffs. For much of the quarter-final match of state basketball play Tuesday night at Floyd County High School, the tough Virginia Hight Bearcats controlled the game with ...

Kiley Hilton (left) and Carly Thompson fight for the rebound. Destiny Harman of the Lady Buffaloes led the scoring with 20 points. After dominating wins in early tournament play in Class C2 regionals, ...

One of the new deaths was in Franklin County. At least 20,801 deaths in the Commonwealth have come from the virus Friday, July 15, 2022 DOUG THOMPSON ...

With a 5-5 regular season record the Buffs head into post season play next week.

Natalie Morris tires to find an opening for a shot. (Photo from a earlier game. The Lady Buffaloes, playing in a gym where school and classes remained closed by weather, fell to James River Thursday, ...

High daily infection numbers include 143 in Montgomery County-Radford, 383 in Roanoke Valley, 89 in Franklin, 43 in Pulaski, 42 in Carroll and 36 in Floyd. New deaths in Roanoke City, County and Salem ...

A death in Roanoke is the second in one in two days for the city. Montgomery County reported 68 new cases, Floyd County had 12. DOUG THOMPSON August 31, 2022 11:24 am ...

The net change of deaths statewide was 0. Montgomery County reported one death, but Radford decreased their total by one. An increase of one in Roanoke county was wiped out by a reduction in anothe… ...

This week would have been FloydFest 2023 but the annual event, planned for its new location just off U.S. 221 near Check was canceled because of purported threats to an endangered species and ...