Harrisonburg News

A couple of miles up the west side of Massanutten Mountain the bees are buzzing and the gnats are annoying.

Dylan Morris and Taylor Shifflett have shown goats at the Rockingham County Fair for a combined eight years.

A documentary following two linguists' race to record endangered languages will air at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Court Square Theater in downtown Harrisonburg.

City officials in Harrisonburg are looking at a new ordinance amendment that would prohibit employees and other citizens from cashing personal checks in the Treasurer's office.

Next month, Rockingham County will begin construction on a $4.8 million wastewater line from McGaheysville to the new Pleasant Run sewer interceptor, which is located just east of Harrisonburg.

Independence day falls on Friday, but Thursday night some folks in the valley decided to celebrate a little early.

"We call him the 'Angel of Blacks Run" because, you know, he's so unselfish and everything," says Harrisonburg resident, Shelby Holden.

A Harrisonburg man with an extensive driving record flipped his car in Rockingham County and walked away with scrapes and bruises.

It's nearly four hours to the heart of Virginia Beach from Harrisonburg, but that doesn't bother Kathy Clancey.

Investigators have now ruled that the fire was not the work of arsonists, as first believed.

Chris Boies, who will become New Market's next town manager Aug. 4, was a James Madison University classmate of the man he is succeeding.

It started 18 years ago when Jo Anne Farrell's stepdaughter offered to teach her to make baskets.

Some Harrisonburg Police officers spent the evening of the Fourth of July looking for drunk drivers.

Capt. Duane Burleigh gave co-workers a sneak peek at his work ethic in his first week as head of the Harrisonburg Salvation Army.

On Tuesday, interim Harrisonburg Treasurer Jeff Shafer officially became the third candidate in this November's special election for the office.

There was some mixed news with the economy this week. Oil spiked to a new record high Friday before closing above $140 per barrel for the first time.

Clifford Weber was recently appointed regional general manager of the new Hampton Inn South Harrisonburg hotel.

The world's largest poultry breeder has lost a building holding turkeys, eggs and equipment in a fire at its facility in Greenbrier County.

The Harrisonburg metropolitan area jobless rate jumped six-tenths of a percentage point to 3.5 percent in May, according to the Virginia Employment Commission.

Author Emilie Richards will visit the Virginia Quilt Museum in Harrisonburg from 1:30-3:30 p.m. on Sunday to sign copies of her latest book, "Sister's Choice," the fifth in a series of six "Shenandoah Album" ...