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Recruiting and retaining quality educators and securing more resources as mental health-related needs continue to mount were among topics Amherst County Public Schools officials raised in a meeting Tuesday with

Norwich – Mark Peake stood outside the Norwich Walmart Friday, protected from the cold rain by a glass overhang, singing an occasional tune to punctuate his steady ringing of his Salvation Army Red K...

Calling school choice the "new Brown versus Board of Education fight," Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears spoke Thursday at an educational choice rally in Lynchburg.

Former Blue Ridge Medical Center COO Debbie Williams watched as Rick Shinn unveiled a plaque to the right of the entrance to the center’s new Appomattox location.

District 4 in the Roanoke area would pit Sen. John Edwards, D-Roanoke against Sen. David Suetterlein, R-Roanoke County.

Following Fridays U.S. Supreme Court decision ending constitutional protections for abortions, two Lynchburg-area legislators are poised to play major roles in a renewed effort to limit abortions in Virginia.

Internal emails show pipeline firms provided North Carolina and Virginia leaders with draft letters and talking points praising their own projects.

'This should not be controversial, but the abortion industry opposes it, and therefore the Democratic Party opposes it,' said Freitas.

Four local legislators met Wednesday for the Lynchburg Regional Business Alliances semiannual Politics and Pancakes General Assembly wrap-up breakfast held at University of Lynchburg.

As the featured speaker for Wednesday’s Convocation, Liberty University President Jerry Prevo used a simple children’s tale to remind the thousands of students in the Vines Center to build their lives to withstand the blows and temptations of the devil....