Appalachian Power Company (APCo) took a major step towards reducing customer bills, the company announced in a news release July 9. In an application filed with the Virginia State Corporation ...

Gretna-based Campers Care Ministry began its initial deployment to Kerrville, Texas on Tuesday, July 15, the organization ...

Following the deadly flooding that struck Central Texas over the July 4 holiday weekend, God’s Pit Crew mobilized a swift ...

The Pittsylvania County school board announced on Tuesday they have selected a handful of candidates to interview from the pool of applicants that came in for the position of superintendent.

Long before the founding of Gretna, Elba, or the Franklin Junction, the northern section of Pittsylvania County was a vast domain belonging to the Ward family. The original patriarch known ...

It's been more than a year since Ross Chastain won a NASCAR Cup race, but that all changed on Sunday afternoon. The Florida driver drove hard, especially in the closing stages to come away with his ...

A new sewer pump is on the way for the Town of Hurt’s sewer pump station near the Altavista water treatment plant Hurt purchases water from, according to the town’s ...

Shakeva Frazier also has her eyes on the Council seat. Frazier confirmed to the Chatham Star-Tribune that she has reached out ...

For many farmhands over the last two centuries, as they cleaved the earth with an old plow, a trusty (or stubborn) mule guided his path over the field. Some of ...

Pittsylvania County Schools are set to revisit the division’s dress code, specifically to examine a section some students and parents, as well as Dan River District member Kelly Merricks, say ...

At just 20 years old, Elmer Cocke left his rural home in Gretna to serve his country in the second world war, bidding farewell to his native Pittsylvania County. On ...

Pittsylvania County leaders have awarded a bid for a badly-needed waterline extension.