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The Augusta County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in locating Brittany Ann Craig, 28, who was last seen on Friday at 6:30 a.m. at 607 Calf Mountain Road in Waynesboro.
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The Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge announced its 2026 community grant awards at an event at the Holiday Inn in Staunton on Wednesday.
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The 2025 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development released last week tells us that 745,652 people were homeless on the night of the Point-In-Time Count in the final week of January 2025.
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It was odd that Waynesboro and Staunton were each able to maintain their local daily newspapers for so long, given the realities of the media market, but we couldn’t keep the good thing going forever, it seems.
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Locals donated more than 120,000 pounds of food during last month’s Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, which will provide 120,000 meals for local families facing food insecurity.
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There are, as we know, plenty of people out there trying to scam folks out of their hard-earned money and life savings.
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I’m not sure why I need to continue my digital subscription with The News Leader anymore, now that News Leader news articles are appearing on the websites of The News Virginian and The Daily Progress.
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VDOT has released the updated schedule for road work and maintenance in Augusta County for the coming week.
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A big reason I was attracted to journalism was Sports Illustrated, which is, sadly, hanging on by a thread, with another round of layoffs announced on Friday taking out most of what the once-great magazine has left.
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Despite it feeling like the Virginia DEQ didn’t want us to know about Northrop Grumman’s request for a permit to release pollutants into the local environment, 250 people submitted comments to the state agency.
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