Posts Tagged Southwest Virginia
Documenting the stories of clawhammer banjo players across Southwest Virginia
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on September 9, 2025
Three musicians are creating a digital map about the history of clawhammer banjo players of Southwest Virginia. Roxy Todd has their story.
Report: Millennials are still leaving SWVA, but at slower rate
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on June 6, 2025
Millennials are leaving Southwest Virginia, although the latest demographic trends indicate a change may be on the horizon. Michael Pope has the details.
One state lawmaker thinks Southwest Virginians should have more electric utility options
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on January 10, 2025
Should Appalachian Power continue to have a monopoly across Southwest Virginia? Michael Pope reports that a senator from Richlands says it’s time to deregulate.
The bill introduced by Senator Hackworth applies only to Appalachian Power, known as Phase One utility – not to the state’s largest electric utility, Dominion Energy, which is a Phase Two utility.
Thousands of tourists flock to far Southwest Virginia to see wild elk
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on November 14, 2024
If you’re in far southwest Virginia during fall, you might here an elk bugling…
These 700-pound animals used to live throughout the eastern United States, but European colonizers overhunted them, and they went extinct in the 1800s.
Now, elk are coming back. Roxy Todd joined a bus tour of tourists who traveled to see elk in their new habitat.
Residents across Southwest Virginia begin long process of recovery after Helene
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Uncategorized on September 30, 2024
Emergency officials are still assessing the full extent of the damage to southwest Virginia from Helene. Many communities are without water and power, and residents evacuated across seven counties.
Roxy Todd was in several of the impacted communities Monday and brings us this story.
With Monday Vote, SW Virginia Stays Unrepresented on Redistricting Commission
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on July 22, 2021
Virginia’s Redistricting Commission chose a new member Monday, leaving the commission without a member from Southwest Virginia. Jahd Khalil reports.
Will SW Virginia Still be Represented on the Redistricting Commission?
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on July 13, 2021
As Virginia’s redistricting commission prepares for its first public hearings, one the commission’s most pressing issues is replacing one of its members and considering geographic representation on the body in the process. Jahd Khalil reports.
Southwest Virginia’s Unemployment Rate May Be Misleading
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on July 16, 2019
Unemployment is going down in Southwest Virginia. But, that might be more alarming than you think. Michael Pope reports.
New Census Data Suggests Southwest Virginia is Continuing to Shrink
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on April 22, 2019
New Census data shows Tazewell County has lost 10% of its population over the last decade. (Credit: visittazewellcounty.org)
New numbers from the Census show Northern Virginia continues to add population. But, the new numbers also show a slow and steady decline in Southwest Virginia. Michael Pope reports.
Mussel Men and Women; Resurrecting a Species
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on November 30, 2017
Tagged Golden Riffle Shell Mussels bred in vitro to repopulate nearly extinct strain. (Credit: Gary Peeples / USFWS
A federally endangered species of fresh water mussel could be found in only one water way in the world; southwestern Virginia’s Clinch River. But 20 years ago, a chemical spill nearly wiped them out. Now biologists may be on their way to resurrecting them. Robbie Harris got into the creek with the scientists and the baby mussels.
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