
Rebecca Tebbs Nunn is 2016 Ms. Virginia Senior America
Hometown Kilmarnock resident Rebecca Tebbs Nunn is Ms. Virginia Senior America 2016.

Hometown Kilmarnock resident Rebecca Tebbs Nunn is Ms. Virginia Senior America 2016.

The USDA will provide funding for three Distance Learning and Telemedicine projects that will help connect rural communities in Southwest Virginia.

The first session of the 2016 American Shakespeare Center Theatre Camp presents its final performances (free and open to the public) on Sunday.

Old Dominion University senior linebacker T.J. Ricks was named to the Bronko Nagurski Trophy Watch List.

Governor Terry McAuliffe announced Friday $3.4 million in funding to support 48 Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund.

Jim Hahn, a professor of economics at Washington and Lee University, has been named president-elect of the United States Society for Ecological Economics.

Nathan Medley, a Harrisonburg High School graduate, will headline this year’s Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival.

Jess Quinlan of Staunton is the winner of the annual Graybeal-Gowen Prize for Virginia Poets offered by Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review.

Zika virus, first discovered in Uganda’s Zika Forest in 1947, is transmitted to humans and other mammals through the bite of an infected Aedes species mosquito.

Flying Dog Brewery sells a beer that it calls Raging Bitch Belgian-Style IPA. Michigan didn’t want it sold there.
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