On Monday, Dec. 22, local law enforcement officers traded in their badges for shopping carts, for Altavista's annual 'Shop ...

ALTAVISTA, Va. – One person is dead following a house fire that occurred in Altavista on Saturday, Altavista Fire Company said. AFC said they responded to reports of a structure fire on the 1000 block ...

ALTAVISTA, Va. – Altavista police are continuing their search for two men who robbed an Arco gas station at gunpoint early Tuesday morning. The robbery occurred around 5 a.m. in the 1000 block of Main ...

ALTAVISTA, Va. (WDBJ) - More than 300 homes could be coming to Altavista, making it the town’s first major housing development in decades. A local family sold 117 acres of former farmland to the town ...

Police are still searching on Friday for the suspect accused in Thursday night's fatal shooting in the 1400 block of Campbell Avenue in Lynchburg. Family and city leaders celebrate as six new officers ...

Man with lupus receives the ultimate Christmas gift: a fully renovated home A Pittsylvania County man battling lupus received a life-changing Christmas gift: a brand new home. Lynchburg's beloved ...

The former chief of the Altavista Police Department is in jail tonight and that's where he'll spend the next 12 months of his life. Kenneth Walsh was sentenced to six years in prison with all but one ...

Luray and Altavista will hit the court on Saturday, Dec. 20 at 7:15 p.m. ET. Don't miss out on any of the action with NFHS ...

AltaVista's search goes on. At a time when upstart companies such as Google and GoTo.com have won the search spotlight, the Web search pioneer continues to grope its way through the dark night of the ...

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