Amherst County has designated nearly $224,000 as a 50% match through the Virginia Department of Transportation’s Revenue ...

AMHERST COUNTY, Va. (WSET) — The trial of Justin Sales, accused of the 2019 murder of 92-year-old Doris Puleio and the ...

A brush fire burned four acres in a residential area in Madison Heights Saturday afternoon, according to officials.

Wiggington’s defense team believes the jail move was orchestrated to place Wiggington near the informant, so he would provide ...

Amherst County officials are financing $5.2 million for the construction of a new cell of the county’s landfill on Kentmoor ...

AMHERST COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - Two men were arrested in connection to multiple thefts that occurred in January and February 2025 at a location near Lexington Turnpike, according to the Amherst ...

AMHERST COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - A man has been sent to a hospital with a possible gunshot wound in Amherst County. The Amherst County Sheriff’s Office and Amherst County Public Safety responded to ...

A MHERST COUNTY, Va. — Amherst County High School was announced as a recipient of the 2023-24 Virginia Board of Education’s Exemplar Performance Award in the category of Continuous Improvement.

Two people in Amherst County Public Schools test positive for COVID-19 AMHERST COUNTY, Va. – School leaders in Amherst County announced Monday that two more people in the school system have ...

One person tests positive for COVID-19 at Amherst Elementary School AMHERST COUNTY, Va. – An individual at Amherst Elementary Schools has been diagnosed with coronavirus on Wednesday ...