When Tom Hartz was a young lad in the 1950s, dragline power shovels had pretty much replaced the hardy miners that harvested coal hundreds of feet beneath the earth’s surface. Still, growing up in the ...

Randy Johnson discovered his love for Grandfather Mountain when he was in college. He would hike and backpack the trails at ...

Fans of colonial heroine Mary Draper Ingles and history buffs will find the 2025 festival in Radford City and Pulaski County, ...

Indeed, the Bristol area offers natural wonders, country music, shopping and dining, even casino gambling and local wine. Looking for some ideas? Here are a few things to check out while you’re in ...

Coming up, see "Birds on the Block" by Lauro López at the Welcome Gallery, get a last look this weekend at the Fralin's ...

The event is expected to draw 60-80,000 in attendance in year one and growing to 150,000 in the third year, the National Folk Festival will become a major new arts event for the city.

For the third time in two months, a motorcycle crash proved fatal on the Blue Ridge Parkway, according to the National Park Service. The latest incident occurred around 4:15 p.m. Monday, July 14, in ...

Maybe you think I have written enough about Josephus Daniels, the founder and longtime editor of the Raleigh News & Observer. Nope.One more column about Josephus Daniels. This one prompted by a recent ...

In this Middleburg shopping guide, we share the best places to shop, eat, and stay in Virginia's horse country.

Late summer in the South is a time to head for the hills, go out west, journey up north or get out on some big water somewhere. Here are ways to do all of those.

A South Carolina man died along the Blue Ridge Parkway while hiking a trail known for its “haunting skeletons of ancient ...