Once 2,000 square miles in Virginia and North Carolina, the swamp today is perhaps one-tenth that size. Allison Shelley The worse it gets, as I wade and stumble through the Great Dismal Swamp, the ...

Virginia’s TowneBank has agreed to acquire regional peer Old Point Financial, the parent of The Old Point National Bank of Phoebus (OPNB), in a cash-stock deal valued at nearly $203m. Under the ...

If Janno Lieber and the rest the honchos at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority really want to know why vast numbers of Staten Islanders despise congestion pricing, all the MTA has to do is ...

This spring break, thousands of Virginians will be traveling with a little assistance from the GPS technology developed by a ...

HAMPTON, Va. — Hundreds of federal leases are slated to come to an end after being canceled by the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, headed by Elon Musk. There are twelve locations ...

Several parents whose children were aboard the Australian school bus involved in a collision with Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent accuser, Virginia Giuffre, are taking issue with her portrayal of ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — It was a simpler time... "A time when everyone was barefoot. You would come in off the beach," said Jimmy Reeve of his restaurant Baja's early years. But, as they say, the ...

Looking back about 400 years Mark Gearhart was the featured speaker at the spring meeting of the Northumberland County Historical Society on Sunday, April 6. Gearhart explained how he developed a 17th ...

Dennis Taylor, emeritus professor, Boston College, spent his early years studying Thomas Hardy. At the turn of the century, he turned to topics in religion and literature, inaugurating the journal ...

The Department of Historic Resources this week approved a new historical marker highlighting the role of the Old Carolina ...

TowneBank’s latest deal comes close on the heels of another acquisition the lender closed earlier this week. On Apr. 1, TowneBank completed its purchase of Village Bank and Trust Financial Corp., a ...

In Williamsburg, where colonial history wraps around you like a warm blanket, there’s a humble white clapboard house serving up what might just be the most life-changing ham biscuit known to mankind.