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Devils Backbone Brewing Co. and the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) are proud to announce the launch of the Crandall Leadership Program, the first paid student internship program for the DWR.

Devils Backbone hosts its first-ever Backbone Lumberjack Classic on Saturday.

Lumberjacks and lumberjills from across the country competed Saturday in Nelson County in the first-ever Backbone Lumberjack Classic, hosted by Devils Backbone Brewing Company in celebration of its newest brew.

Can a country be haunted? If Guillermo Del Toros films Pans Labyrinth and The Devils Backbone are anything to go by, the answer is yes.

Talking Heads’ masterpiece, “Remain in Light,” turned 40 years old last year. On Friday at FloydFest, Talking Heads member Jerry Harrison and guitarist Adrian Belew performed the album with New York funk band Turkuaz, in what was easily the festival’s highlight. Many in the audience weren’t yet born when that record dropped. Many in the audience grew up with the album. The situation was similar earlier in July, when the act debuted the show at Peach Music Festival, in P...

Southwest Virginia’s long-running musical amusement park, FloydFest, is back for another late July run. FloydFest 21~Odyssey runs Wednesday through July 25, after a year off due to COVID-19. The event, which is operating at reduced capacity even as Virginia restrictions have fallen, is sold out. Quite a few things have changed in the nearly two years since the last time. As of July 1, cannabis possession was legalized in Virginia, with multiple caveats. Most people spent months wearing mas...

According to data and intelligence firm IWSR, which tracks worldwide alcohol trends, volume sales of spirits-based RTDs in the U.S. grew 86% between 2019 and 2020.

Memorial Day Weekend traditionally signals the unofficial start of summer, but this year...

Two women were injured after someone hit them and kept on going Saturday night, according to Virginia State Police.

Virginia State Police are investigating a hit-and-run crash in Nelson County that occurred Saturday on Route 151 just south of Devils Backbone Brewery.