More than 30 years ago, Dr. David Brillhart read an article in The Washington Post about a number of old railroad tracks in Wisconsin that had been transformed into hiking trails. 

Enrollment has increased at all of the region’s colleges with the exception of one – Virginia Intermont College.
The private college in Bristol, beset by financial woes in recent months, has 30 percent fewer students than it did last fall. 

For a third time, a court hearing has been delayed for an Arkansas truck driver charged in a crash that tied up Interstate 81 traffic for hours in July. 

After a brief public hearing Tuesday, the Washington County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a $6.2 million bond issue for school capital-improvement projects. 

Steve Morris didn’t go to China for the money, the $1 million prize. He went for the experience.

On Thursday night, around 20 family members and friends gathered at the Blue Willow Cafe in Saltville, joining16 million other viewers, to see the experience come to an end.

The 23-year-old Kathy Russell White could have never imagined she’d be at the center of a national First Amendment debate.
But in 1980, after the Washington County Public Library director had refused a request from the Rev. Tom Williams to see a list of names of those who had checked out certain books, that’s where she was.
“It was just automatic, to protect the privacy of the patrons,” White said.

Flying over Tokyo, Tom Hagy couldn’t see much out of his little window - just the props pulling the newly commissioned B-29 bomber through the air and the rest of his bomb wing floating ever closer to its target.

Housing needs in Washington and Smyth counties received a healthy dose of federal funds Wednesday as People Inc. and the Mount Rogers Planning District Commission received $113,304 each for rehabilitation projects.

Street and trail signage, bike lanes, parking and traffic flow were discussed at a meeting with a handful of Damascus residents, businesses owners, park service and Mount Rogers Planning District representatives last week at the Town Hall. 

A 46-year-old Washington County woman on Wednesday was charged with animal neglect after law enforcement officers seized seven horses and 10 dogs.