ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Take a look at the Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center’s newest education ambassador, a Virginia opossum, which currently doesn’t have a name. However, there’s a naming ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Alpha-gal Syndrome—a tick-borne allergy that makes people allergic to meat—is on the rise in Virginia. The CDC estimates nearly half a million Americans could be affected ...

Poor weather on Monday didn’t stop friends, families and veterans from all over the New River Valley from celebrating ...

BIG STONE GAP, Va. (WJHL) — An investigation is underway after confirmed gang members at Wallens Ridge State Prison allegedly premeditatedly stabbed three corrections officers. According to a ...

Legislators announced $46.67 million in additional federal funding Tuesday to help with recovery from the damages of Hurricane Helene in Southwest Virginia. Both U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim ...

Pulaski County will be the site of the largest solar energy farm in Southwest Virginia and one of the largest on the East Coast. On a 3-1 vote, the board of supervisors approved a special use ...

BIG STONE GAP, Va. (WJHL) — Two correctional officers hospitalized after a reported gang stabbing at Wallens Ridge State Prison in Big Stone Gap were released on Thursday. “Our entire agency ...

Authorities say members of the MS-13 gang stabbed corrections officers at Wallens Ridge State Prison Friday morning. Three officers, including two who suffered minor injuries while responding to ...

The attack occurred at about 9:45 a.m. on May 2 at the Wallens Ridge State Prison, a super-maximum security prison located in Big Stone Gap, a remote town in southwest Virginia, according to the ...

DYER | The town's quest to develop a stormwater reservoir across the Illinois line has hit a snag: The property may contain an American Indian burial ground. Rumors have circulated regarding a ...

A study has found that land owned by the city of Richmond, Virginia, possibly contains more than 700 unmarked graves. Some of those graves could belong to Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil ...