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Smyth County’s leaders are striving to meet today’s needs and pay those bills while also innovatively investing in the community’s future.

New Census Bureau data shows how Northern Virginia shares certain negative population trends with some of Virginia's coal counties.

A committee of three Smithfield Town Council members tasked with writing a policy governing if or when taxpayer dollars can be put toward sharing in the cost of a private residential or commercial development will hold its first meeting on Sept. 6 at 3:30 p.m. in the Windsor Castle manor house.

The net in-migration of younger adults has been significant enough that the median age has now fallen in 35 Virginia localities, most of them rural, most of them in Southwest and Southside. 

Northern Virginia has seen the highest out-migration rate per capita this decade out of all the state's metro areas, according to a report from UVA's Weldon Cooper Center.

Trump’s vow to eliminate, overhaul or relocate big chunks of the federal bureaucracy could have a significant economic impact in D.C., Virginia and Maryland.

The Hispanic population is the fastest-growing demographic in Winchester, according to recently released data for 2000 through 2023.

Smithfield’s Town Council voted unanimously on Aug. 6 to form a committee tasked with writing a policy governing if or when taxpayer dollars can be put toward sharing in the cost of a private residential or commercial development.

Some Washingtonian super commuters are clocking into their hybrid D.C. jobs from houses hours away.

The cost of housing is the number one reason that people are leaving Northern Virginia for other parts of the state - including Richmond - and other southeastern states, according to a new analysis by the University of Virginia.