PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) - A portion of State Route 7 in Washington County is now named after a Vietnam War hero. An ...

So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.

As a nascent fighting force, the Continental Army was underestimated for the entirety of the American Revolutionary War. Just ...

Karen Stone of Fredericksburg has written a book about the Black Diamond disaster, a forgotten tragedy on the Potomac River ...

As U.S. colleges are pulling back on diversity, equity and inclusion practices, students of color say they are starting to ...

Macy Meyer is a North Carolina native who graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a BA in English and a second BA in Journalism. Macy is a Writer on the CNET How-To team, covering a variety of topics ...

In accomplishing this feat, they amassed 1.6 petabytes of data — the equivalent of 22 years of nonstop high-definition video. “This is a milestone,” said Davi Bock, a neuroscientist at the ...

The Fredericksburg City School Board on Monday night approved a new zoning map for the city’s three elementary schools. The map, said Deputy Superintendent Matt Eberhardt, is essentially identical to ...

Billies battle familiar foe in regional finals The Fredericksburg High School varsity boys’ soccer team earned two playoff victories this past week to position themselves in the regional finals ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The record-high cost of eggs in the United States is impacting the price of some of Easter's most treasured traditions. Since this time 2024, prices have seen an 84% increase, and it's having an ...

While Republicans have only the narrowest of majorities in the House, they currently hold 53 Senate seats, most of them in relatively safe red states, and next year’s map for the upper chamber ...