With a 2018 deadline a way off but steadily approaching, family members of residents at the Southwestern Virginia Training Center are coming to terms with the institution’s imminent closure. But t...

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee told the students at Washington & Lee University’s Mock Convention on Thursday night that their generation will struggle in part because of the staggering federal debt.

It was Thursday afternoon, the start of the university's 25th Mock Convention, a W&L tradition that has seen students predict correctly the winner of the nomination for the major party not in the White House 18 of 24 times.

The Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce held its fifth annual Business Showcase on Wednesday at the Waynesboro Best Western and had what Chamber President Linda Hershey called its best turnout yet.

Area state legislators were presented with a hand-delivered letter Thursday by the Augusta County Board of Supervisors asking for their help in lowering the Virginia Retirement System costs to the county over the next two years.