A Virginia lawmaker's push to get the governor to petition the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency to reclassify marijuana as a schedule II drug has failed.

The Virginia Supreme Court is allowing a lawsuit over congressional redistricting to proceed.

Some Virginia voters are upset about a proposal to require photo ID's at polling stations.

Pfizer is recalling 28 lots of birth control pills.

NEW CASTLE – Despite the downward spiral of the economy the Craig County Recreation and Conservation Association’s “Field of Dreams” is making headway thanks to the benevolence of organizations both locally and from surrounding areas. In November, the Craig County Youth & Community Services board received a grant for $30,000 from Roanoke Women’s Foundation for the [...]

On Jan. 18 John Reece Roth, a former professor of electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee (UT) in Knoxville, began serving a four-year prison sentence for his September 2008 convictions.

A proposal to name the eastern red cedar as Tennessee's official evergreen tree is headed for a full Senate vote.

NEW CASTLE – A music and arts festival in May at Country Campground in Craig County is one of the items the board of supervisors is scheduled to consider at Thursday’s meeting. The Feb. 2 meeting will begin at 5 p.m. in the Craig County Courthouse. A public hearing on the proposed festival is scheduled to [...]

Northeast State Community College has become the first community college in the Tennessee Board of Regents system to launch its own mobile application.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture presented a $191,600 grant to East Tennessee State University’s Quillen College of Medicine. Combined with a $96,000 match from ETSU, the funds will help establish a system linking medical centers in Smyth and Tazewell counties in Virginia, Johnson and Hancock counties in Tennessee and Harlan County, Ky. Medical school officials announced the program during a news conference.