Multiple festivities are planned this weekend for the 200th anniversary of the Marquis de Lafayette's tour of America, after helping the fledging nation take flight.

A Virginia museum has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, where hundreds of mostly enslaved students learned to read through a ...

The guitar-smashing, rock-and-roll-styled ceremony which christened the new Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Bristol was the ...

The Staunton-Augusta County African American Research Society is hosting a play titled ‘Voices of our Past’ to raise funds ...

Electrovaya likely could have had a better package of incentives for its Gigafactory elsewhere. But Chautauqua County had an ...

Electrovaya Inc., a Canadian-based maker of lithium-ion batteries, has secured nearly $51 million in funding toward its goal of opening a production facility outside Jamestown.

The 13 original colonies of the United States were the foundation of what would become a new nation, born from a blend of ambition, conflict and compromise. These colonies stretched along the Atlantic ...

The tobacco pipe is a symbol synonymous with Virginia’s agricultural heritage and material culture. Decorative details on ...

As Virginians prepare for the beginning of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term, Republicans, according to the party’s ...

For years a plaque hung in the Jamestown Police Department honoring former city police officer Kenneth A. Beebe. It ...

In 1775, the first ever James River Batteau launched and carried goods and people with a unique ability to go up and down the river. Now, the batteau is back for the annual festival.

Patricia Kilby-Robb, a retired educator, gives a tour of the James Wilson Kilby African American Museum on Shenandoah Shores ...