Galax News

BOB BROWN/MEDIA GENERAL NEWS SERVICE - Ralph Stanley sits on the couch in the living room of the Stanley home outside of Coeburn, Va.

Threatened by imports from China and with factories shutting down all around him, John D. Bassett III did something few other manufacturers did: He fought back.

Bristol, TN/VA -- The Appalachian Cultural Music Association will present their 16th Annual Leon Kiser Memorial Tribute Concert at the Paramount Theatre in Bristol, Tennessee on Saturday, February 25th.

Those of us that have reasonably decent broadband connections at home and at work often forget there are still large parts of America that are still on dial-up. Design Nine just completed the first part of a USDA-funded Community Connect project in Grayson County, Virginia.

Smart Beginnings Twin County, an initiative launched in 2010 to enhance school readiness for the area's youngest citizens, has received a $100,000 grant from the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation .

Galaxians is a fixed screen shoot 'em up most similar to Galaxian . Lately a number of freighters have gone missing and scans show that alien ships are present in the area.

Bob Bailey was working in the regulatory division of Virginia's Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services when Roanoke Times reporter Mary Bishop wrote in 1988 about the deaths of Hubert and Freida Watson after exterminators treated their Galax home for wood-boring beetles.

Galax Police are trying to figure out what caused a man to drive into the path of a school bus on Thursday afternoon.

Though it's been closed for about 20 years, a group of citizens just across the Carroll County border believe the old Austinville School could once again serve many useful purposes for the community.

Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Company announced an $8 million expansion that will add 115 jobs to its workforce.

Roanoke's country music station once again topped the fall radio ratings, which were released last week.

Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Company announced today that it will open a factory in Galax in March to machine, assemble and finish bedroom furniture.

Two convicted felons, one from Knoxville, and one from Virginia, were arrested Thursday, Jan.

Duke LifePoint Healthcare is a step closer to finalizing its majority ownership of a Virginia-based company, announcing today a commitment to invest $20 million in capital improvements at Twin County Regional Hospital over the next 10 years.

In today's world of bluegrass, many musicians find it difficult to keep a band together for even a short period of time.

The severe weather events of 2011 may have forest landowners thinking about timber taxes.