Bluefield News

Tough road ahead - Revenue projections remain dim for Va. Bluefield Daily Telegraph It doesn't look like Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell is going to inherit a financially sound Commonwealth.

Not many days ago the fine folks at Bluefield College welcomed some 150 juniors from Tazewell High School as part of a group to see a production of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible," which we had studied in class as part of the Standards of Learning instruction that Virginia schools have to do.

It's time to usher in the 2009 holiday season with thousands of colorful lights at Bluefield's Lotito Park.

BLUEFIELD, Va. - Some land owners on East River Mountain are beginning to question the need for a proposed tall structure ordinance in Tazewell County.

Bluefield College has received an $85,000 grant to start a rural health care education program for southwest Virginia.

With the day after Thanksgiving fast approaching, organizations across the Virginias are seeking participants for annual events featuring bands, civic clubs, marchers and a fellow by the name of Santa Claus - the Christmas parade.

BLUEFIELD, Va. - A local soldier wounded by enemy combatants following a weekend ambush in Afghanistan is recovering at a Germany hospital.

Tazewell County deputies say a home on Big Branch Road in Bluefield, Virginia burned Friday night.

Although the official public hearing was delayed until January, area residents still spoke out Tuesday over the controversial topic of wind turbines.

A late night house fire on Big Branch Road left one person dead and another badly injured Nov.

As of Monday afternoon, Tazewell County authorities were still awaiting tests to confirm the identity of a man who died Nov.

A Tazewell County man is dead after a fire in his home. The Bluefield, Virginia Fire Department responded to the house fire on Big Branch Road late Friday night.

Mercer County Republicans will soon be choosing a new party leader. The Mercer County Republican Executive Committee will hold elections for chairman on Dec.

BLUEFIELD, Va -- A man is dead after a fire at his home in Bluefield, Va. A second victim was in that fire, she walked away with burns.

Bluefield's announced intention to promote railroad heritage and the tremendous outpouring of support for last weekend's AMTRAK rail excursion signals the likelihood of a large crowd for the 21st annual Model Train Show at the Bluefield Auditorium on Stadium Drive all day today and Sunday afternoon.

Tazewell County residents are polarized on the windmill issue. Some are in favor of the wind turbines while some are adamantly opposed.

BLUEFIELD, Va. - While the House of Representatives passed the Affordable Health Care for America Act Saturday night on a 220-215 vote, support of the bill wasn't unilateral, even among the Democratic majority in the House.

Construction on the new $16.2 million King Coal Highway bridge project in Bluefield is complete.

The election in the Commonwealth is over. It seems that at least for another year the election process is over in the Virginia, or is it? Virginia, like the other 49 states, will choose her U.S. Congressional representatives next November in 2010.

The charges range from tax evasion to production of child pornography. BECKLEY- -- A Bluefield doctor is among four people indicted by a federal grand jury.