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With enrollment up year-over-year, Danville Community College has reversed an ongoing trend that predates the pandemic. While COVID-19 dealt a blow to systems of higher education across the state and nation, a slip in enrollment was playing out ...

Accolades continue stacking up for Averett University. On Monday, the Danville school landed in the top 25 of the 2022-23 Best Regional Colleges in the South in a list released by the U.S. News & World Report. Averett was the highest-ranking ...

Ahead of a full fall state of activities, the Danville Science Center set a record for visitors in the summer months. Over June, July and August, a total of 17,057 visitors toured the science-themed museum in Danville’s River District, an ...

The board of directors of the Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History this week announced Tina Cornely as its interim executive director. An innovative educator and accomplished art historian, museum administrator and author, Cornely, a Georgia ...

After receiving more than 2,000 responses to a regional tourism branding survey, the Danville Office of Economic Development & Tourism will unveil the results next week. The goal was to aid in developing a regional tourism brand and ...

Following opposition from residents, the Pittsylvania County Planning Commission voted to recommend a zoning change for a proposed ancient Rome themed luxury RV park off U.S. 58. The project would complement the Caesars Virginia casino and hotel ...

STAFFORD — His favorite part of the Constitution is the First Amendment, but Gov. Glenn Youngkin told Thomas Coen’s AP government class on Thursday that he spends a lot of time these days on the 10th. That’s the one that says what Washington ...

An area between Pine Street and Jefferson Avenue could become a green space with with a pedestrian path and other features. City planning officials hope to convert a kudzu-covered, one-and-half-acre spot into a “passive recreation area” with a ...