A paleontologist suspects the bones belonged to an American cheetah that lived in Lee County could be up to 500,000 years old.
Southwest Virginia
Posted inOpinion
Who funded voter suppression in rural Virginia?
We now know who supplied most of the money for a group of Democrats who masqueraded as a conservative group trying to undermine the Republican candidate for governor.
Posted inOpinion
A reality check on remote workers
Rural localities are counting on an influx of remote workers to reverse their population declines. How realistic is this?
Posted inOpinion
Could Southwest Virginia be a center for wind turbine manufacturing?
Why having a plan matters, and why other communities should take notice.
Posted inOpinion
Was report on coalfield economy worth the trouble?
The study on the coalfields economy — part of what the region got in return for the repeal of coal tax credits — is now out.
Posted inPolitics
‘We are fighting a biological war’
Northam urges residents in rural Virginia, where vaccination hesitancy is the highest, to roll up their sleeves.
Posted inOpinion
12 winners and losers in the proposed redistricting maps
A look at geopolitical power: Which localities in Southwest and Southside will gain influence and which ones will lose.
Posted inOpinion
Seven controversial things the Supreme Court will have to decide in redistricting
And this is just on our side of the state. Hint: They’re in Danville, Martinsville, Lynchburg, Albemarle and much of Southwest.
Posted inNews Briefs
Southside has some of state’s lowest virus rates; Southwest the highest
Lynchburg continues to have one of the lowest infection rates among major cities in Virginia.
