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The Dan River Region will get two new career connection labs for middle-school students following approval of state grant money. Danville and Pittsylvania County are among dozens of localities that will get a share of about $6.7 million for ...

BLAIRS — Flipping through the hardbound pages of his high school’s history, Edward Hairston pointed out the teachers and students that he still remembered 53 years after attending Pittsylvania County’s first high school for black students. ...

Virginia’s unemployment rate is the lowest it’s been in about 20 years, but areas such as Southside Virginia still lag behind most of the commonwealth when it comes to employment. “All regions in our state don’t have that same unemployment ...

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner swung by Danville’s River District on Thursday morning, where he grabbed an iced mocha at Links Coffee House Café before touring parts of downtown in a trolley bus and on foot with local officials. Warner, a Democrat up for ...

123 South Union, LLC today announced plans to redevelop the former Knights of Pythias (119-121 South Union Street) and Register & Bee buildings (123 South Union Street) into a luxury hospitality concept. Once completed, the two properties ...

Essel Propack officials have ambitious plans for its facility in Danville. “We want to become the Amazon of tubes,” said Parag Chaturvedi, the India-based company’s head of operation in the United States. Essel Propack is investing $31.2 million ...

Despite flooding and power outages, Danville managed to remain among the top 10 in a national online voting campaign through its end Friday. Partners in Preservation — the national campaign’s creators, based in Washington, D.C. — announced ...

Danville Mayor Alonzo Jones noted the irony of textiles returning to Danville on Tuesday, given the region’s history with the industry, while announcing a business promising jobs in the eastern part of the city. BGF Industries — a subsidiary of ...