Virginia Governor Ralph Northam blamed the unvaccinated Monday for the state’s ongoing surge in new COVID-19 cases, arguing that the unvaccinated are filling up state hospitals and keeping others who are vaccinated from receiving the medical care they may need.

BLUEFIELD — Maples Nursing Home in Bluefield has the highest percentage of residents who have been vaccinated in area long-term care facilitie…

BLUEFIELD — Fall has officially arrived and in some places the foliage is already hinting that spring and summer greens will soon start changi…

The challenge came from individuals, including Re;ublican Sen. Travis Hackworth of Tazewell County, who argued that inmates should be counted as residents of the prisons where they are housed.

The latest virus deaths from Mercer County are a 78-year-old male, a 59-year-old male, a 67-year-old female a 55-year-old male and an 83-year-old female. This brings Mercer County’s COVID-19 death toll to date to 151.

COLLIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A gunman attacked a grocery store in an upscale Tennessee suburb on Thursday afternoon, killing one person and woun…

 After a four-day manhunt, a second suspect wanted in connection with a McDowell County murder has turned himself in to authorities.

Three Democrats representing the region in Washington have reintroduced a federal measure that seeks to protect the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund from insolvency.

After several days of decline, the number of active COVID-19 cases in Mercer County increased again on Thursday. That means Mercer County is moving in the wrong direction when compared to statewide virus statistics, which are still declining.

The Mercer County Board of Health has approved a mask mandate for all indoor public buildings in the county, effective immediately. The motion require masks be worn inside public buildings, including restaurants, schools and businesses, as well as outdoors where social distancing is not possible.

PRINCETON — An attempted routine traffic stop led to a brief car chase and a drug bust in Princeton Tuesday night.

Police have confirmed the identity of a murder victim in McDowell County, but are still searching for two armed-and-dangerous suspects wanted in connection with the case.