Virgin Islands News

Daily News Photo by CRISTIAN SIMESCU V.I. Waste Management Authority environmental program manager Emmeline Simmonds, right, speaks during a check presentation to the Boys and Girls Club.

A local woman vacationing with her husband in the Virgin Islands was found hanged in her hotel room.

The family of a local woman found dead in the Virgin Islands earlier this month says the death looks suspicious, and they want a second autopsy done.

Charlotte Kimelman with well-wishers outside the St. Thomas Synagogue. Family and friends gathered at the St.

Congress is being urged to take one of the longest-operating cattle ranches in the Virgin Islands and add it to the National Park System as a national historic site.

Daily News Photo by SEAN McCOY Charter yachts and cruise ships herald the start of tourist season after a summer of slumping arrivals.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded the territory $1.6 million to begin burying power lines on Main Street in Charlotte Amalie - a move officials think could save millions in damages if a hurricane should strike.

Seven colleges will have representatives available to speak with public and private high school students and their families at a free College Fair from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Monday in the Marin Center at Antilles School.

Daily News File Photo An illegal beach was built on the grounds of the Virgin Islands Legislature over Columbus Day weekend.

The University of the Virgin Islands will host a series of free environmental health and safety workshops on its St.

Fitch Ratings has removed the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority's senior and subordinate electric system bonds from Rating Watch Negative and subsequently affirmed the ratings at 'BBB' and 'BBB-', respectively.

Henry Kimelman, whose fundraising and support for Sen. George McGovern in the 1972 presidential campaign earned him a spot on President Richard Nixon's "enemies list," has died.

The V.I. Resource Conservation and Development Council received an Outstanding Community Level Participation award at the 22nd annual U.S. Coral Reef Task Force meeting in Puerto Rico last week.

On Tuesday, November 17, at an official ceremony at historic Fort Frederik, St Croix Senator Wayne James will transfer to the people of the US Virgin Islands a collection of valuable documents, photographs, and moving images obtained from the University of Havana during the senator's recent visit to Cuba, where he attended the VII Biennial ...

Despite rainy weather and even though it is not an election year, residents gathered in Grove Place on Monday afternoon to celebrate the life, legacy and accomplishments of labor leader and community activist D. Hamilton Jackson during Liberty Day ceremonies Also known as D. Hamilton Jackson Day, or Bull and Bread Day, Virgin Islanders observe ...

Eds: APNewsNow. Will stand. CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands The governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands has signed into a law a 30-year revenue deal with the owners of locally produced Cruzan Rum, which has a heritage on St.

BLOUNT COUNTY, Tenn. a ' A Blount County native was one of three people killed when a small airplane crashed October 29th, 2009 in St.

Daily News Photo by CHRIS WALSH Gov. John deJongh Jr. is shown the new 911 system.

ST. CROIX, U.S. Virgin Islands - U.S. Virgin Islands police have identified the people killed in a small plane crash last week as a man from Tennessee and two residents of the Caribbean territory.

Two men were shot and killed early Saturday morning in downtown Charlotte Amalie and a third man was killed by gunfire Saturday night, according to police.