Rail took a while to reach Northern Virginia. The railroad first reached Washington, DC in 1835, but it would be another twenty-six years before the line was extended across the Potomac.

A car reported stolen in 1992 was discovered submerged in Lake Gaston, Virginia, during a training exercise by the Virginia ...

Anglers are now picking the days they fish based on weather, and there will be those sunny days with little wind that will ...

Multiple first responders were on the scene in Fruitland on Tuesday after an excavator fell into a retention pond, trapping ...

The Battle of Great Bridge in modern-day Chesapeake was the first significant land battle of the American Revolution in Virginia. It was also significant because it featured multi-racial armies on ...

Wilson Beaver is a senior policy advisor in the Allison Center for National Security at The Heritage Foundation. Today, Dec. 9, 2025, marks an important anniversary in the lead-up to our country’s ...

It was a narrow wooden bridge situated over the southern branch of the Elizabeth River in difficult terrain amid bogs and swampland, accessible only by narrow causeways on both the north and south ...

A driver was rescued from a truck dangling off a bridge in West Virginia amid snowfall after being trapped for nearly five hours. Video footage from the incident at a bridge in Southside, about 40 ...

MASON COUNTY, W.Va. (WOWK) – A tractor-trailer driver has been rescued from his cab, hanging partially over a bridge in Mason County following a crash, and officials say his load is what kept him from ...

John Champe travels to Stone Bridge for a playoff showdown Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. EST at Stone Bridge in Ashburn, Virginia. Follow the ...

Virginia’s law would require social media platforms to limit how much time kids under 16 spend on their sites, with parental permission required for longer sessions. Virginia’s law would require ...

The body of a miner missing since Saturday in a flooded West Virginia coal mine has been found, West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morissey announced Thursday morning. Morissey identified the man as Steve ...