It found that Virginia ranked 15th among the states for happiness. Hawaii was ranked the happiest state by WalletHub for the second year in a row, boasting the highest levels of life satisfaction and ...

Athletes are nominated by The News Leader staff with input from coaches and fans. Polls close Wednesday at noon.

Todd Gardner calls himself a weird bird. He was both an athlete and an artist in school. A good enough athlete that he played two years of baseball at Bridgewater College, but a good enough artist ...

Staunton still has its state-level Virginia Main Street designation but lost its federal Main Street accreditation earlier this year.

A new National Park Service report shows that 1.7 million visitors to Shenandoah National Park in 2024 spent $132 million in communities near the park. That spending had a cumulative benefit to the ...

Rt. 252 Turnpike Wine and History Trail in Augusta County, Hands and Harvest Festival in Highland County, art exhibits and more in this week's Digest.