Wytheville’s Millwald Theater is looking a bit different these days, and that’s a good thing. Kinsey Sign & Neon Co. recently removed the …
The Bland Ministry Center, along with local State Farm agent April Lusk and Hitachi ABB, is working to “Pack the Bus” with school supplies for…
Updated July 31, 2020 7 p.m.
The Bland County General and Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Combined Courts have a new clerk.
The Mount Rogers Health District’s Coronavirus case totals continue to tick upwards.
No one was injured on Monday morning when a southbound motorhome caught fire on Interstate 77 on Brushy Mountain.
A fugitive suspect in the slaying of a Tazewell County man was arrested in Bland County and freed on bond a few days before police found the v…
Officers went looking for a dead black bear on Friday, but they found a dead human instead.
A North Carolina woman had to be freed from her car on Monday morning after wrecking on Interstate 77 near the Bland exit.
The coronavirus has claimed one of Bland County’s most popular events for 2020. The Festival of Leaves will not be held this October, but will…
Bland County Elementary School has a new principal. The school system hired Mike Grim to oversee school operations. He begins his new job on July 1.
If you’ve been thinking about selling your house for whatever reason – to move up, move away or downsize – now might be a good time to call yo…
The Virginia Department of Health’s Mount Rogers Health District announced the first case of COVID-19 in Bland County. Close contacts have bee…
After more than 75 years, the remains of a Bland County World War II soldier could be coming home.
It was a crime scene.
The Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation's Wytheville Field Office continues to investigate Saturday's discovery of human re…
The Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigations is investigating after a man's body was discovered in a ditch in Bland County.
Bland County residents are coming together to help longtime Bland County Messenger sportswriter Jerry Scott and his wife, Glenda, who are each…
Amid a climb in positive coronavirus case totals in some locations, the Mount Rogers Health district has seen a drop in the number of active c…
Dan Newberry’s novel starts out with one of the main characters losing her artificial eye overboard a yacht. From there, Newberry weaves a tal…
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Back in the summer of ’59, when 18-year-old Jack Blankenship was introduced to 17-year-old Donna Jones, he knew.
Accused of fleeing from police in his car and then trying to escape after they caught him, a Bland County man is facing 12 criminal charges – …
Efforts to flatten the curve in Virginia appear to be working, Gov. Ralph Northam said during a Friday briefing, but it’s still too early to r…
U.S. Senator Tim Kaine has launched the “Everybody’s the Graduation Speaker” video contest. With many in-person graduations likely to be postp…
The Mount Rogers Health District will hold drive –thru COVID-19 testing in Wythe and Carroll counties next week.
All day Monday, people wandered into King’s Produce saying the same thing: “I hear you are closing. Say it’s not true.”
