Ed. — From the Sunday, Aug. 27, print edition. Georgia Allen and Latasha Holloway are seen in a combined image. [File photos/The Princess Anne Independent News] BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE COURTHOUSE — The ...

BACK BAY — This is a look back at some of the images from our newspaper in 2020, a tough year for many of us. Better things are ahead. Thank you to David B. Hollingsworth for his exceptional work this ...

COURTHOUSE — People throughout time and all over the world seem to have craved music, and for centuries they’ve turned to the dulcimer to provide it. That was true in the medieval Middle East as well ...

Ed. — The following are responses to questions posed by The Independent News to candidates in the election for the District 2 seat on the Virginia Beach City Council. Answers to our questions in this ...

WEST NECK — The owner of the defunct Signature at West Neck Golf Course has raised the possibility of turning it into a farm and enclosing it in a fence — and pushed back against a suggestion from the ...

COURTHOUSE — Virginia Beach is in the process of transitioning to a new government website at virginiabeach.gov, though the older city site, www.vbgov.com, is still operational and will remain up ...

BACK BAY — About 10 years ago, I made a half-joking suggestion during a family gathering in Pungo. I said this would be a pretty good place to start a community newspaper. The thought wasn’t met with ...

What are your specific qualifications for this office? I’ve lived in VB my entire life and was in VBCPS k-12 grade as were all 3 of my siblings. I’ve seen how the schools work from a student ...

VIRGINIA BEACH — Virginia Beach rarely hosts a movie premiere, so an opportunity for a film buff to preview The Color Purple is an early Christmas present. And local organizations that do good work ...

THE INDEPENDENT NEWS VIRGINIA BEACH — The Independent News asked the three candidates for the special election in District 1 to answer a series ...

People had to abandon their farms to seek work in cities. Soils were overplowed, overgrazed and dry. So much of it blew away, a remarkable loss that stemmed from drought but also from manmade causes ...

VIRGINIA BEACH — Peter Coutu’s first journalism job out of college was at The Virginian-Pilot in 2018, and he didn’t take long to make a difference. Investigations and change followed. Coutu started ...