The firm is headed by the former leader of the U.S. military's Joint Special Operations Command

Norfolk State sits atop the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and ranks as among the most likely squads from Virginia to earn an NCAA Tournament bid.

10 YEARS AGO Shawn Mason, executive director of the International Falls Area Chamber of Commerce, was recently elected to the board of directors of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce Executives. Etta Jean Goulet, Beverly Culbertson and Virginia Randolph, members of the American Cancer Society’s Koochiching Unit, are preparing bouquets of daffodils for its annual Daffodil […]

How can we continue to celebrate the Christmas season? Some mysteries are so profound and all-encompassing that they cannot be limited to one day on the calendar. Surely Christmas is one of these too big to squeeze into one day feasts. That God the Son became human and was born of the Virgin Mary should […]

The Falls High girls’ swim team traveled to Virginia for a meet with the Blue Devils on Thursday. The Devils defeated the Broncos by a final score of 57-45. The meet went well, the girls were hoping to do a little better than they did, Broncos coach Kylee LaVigne said. I told them that ‘we […]

Public invited to learn jigs, reels, waltzes and polkas at dance in Virginia Jim Ganahl and Carol Booth, community education dance instructors known in International Falls, are bringing traditional Irish music and dance to northern Minnesota. On March 15, the Saturday before Saint Patrick’s Day, their band FriendsOnTheRange will perform a concert of traditional Irish […]

The Falls HIgh Broncos girls’ track and field team competed in the Falls Invite here Tuesday afternoon. The Broncos had several first-place finishes in the meet that featured eight area teams including Lake of the Woods, Bigfork, Eveleth-Gilbert, Virginia, Mountain Iron-Buhl, Hibbing and Mesabi east. It’s really odd to have the month of April coming […]

FHS Staff Report The Falls High Broncos boys’ and girls’ golf teams competed in the Hibbing Invitational on Friday at the Mesaba Country Club in Hibbing. The boys finished in second place, one shot behind the Virginia Bluedevils with a team score of 325. The Bluedevils finished with a team score of 324. Third place […]

Russell Douglas Piekarski, 53, of Virginia, Minn., died Saturday, July 4, 2009, at St. Mary’s Medical Center, Duluth, Minn., following a heart attack. Russell was born Jan. 9, 1956, in International Falls, Minn. He graduated from Falls High School in 1974. He moved to Virginia in 2000 and had lived there since. Russell had worked […]

International Falls finished fourth after going 2-2 at last weekend’s Bantam B North Region Hockey Tournament at Bronco Arena. The Broncos opened the tournament Friday afternoon with a 7-1 loss to Brainerd. The Falls remained in the double-elimination tournament by winning both of its games Saturday, first defeating Virginia, 3-2, and then Grand Rapids, 6-5. […]

Virginia D. Mady, 89, of Hutchinson, passed away on Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, at Ecumen Pines in Hutchinson. Memorial service will be at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 2, at the New Journey United Church of Christ in Hutchinson with interment in the Oakland Cemetery in Hutchinson. Gathering of family and friends will be from […]

Martin Bruce Hicks, 64 years old, of International Falls, Minn., passed away March 30, 2016, at the hospital. He was under the care of the emergency room while traveling. Martin Hicks was born May 11, 1951, on a bridge in Minnesota, to Patricia Virginia Maria Gauthier (Jan. 4,1930), also known as grandma Pat. Grandma Pat […]

The Falls High School boys’ hockey team dropped a road game 8-2 against Virginia Tuesday evening. The loss places the Broncos’ record at 7-7-1. Scoring goals for the Broncos were: Simon Palm (assisted by Brady Wicklund) at 3:08 into the first period Kian Gonzales (assisted by Joe Glowack) at 8:57 into the third period The […]

A new bill from a Norfolk legislator could allow police to place traffic cameras at stop signs and pedestrian crossings and issue tickets in the same manner as speed cameras at school zones.

Hampton Roads' population has seen some shifts since the coronavirus pandemic. Suffolk is the fifth fastest-growing locality in the state, while Virginia Beach has seen a drop in population.

the Virginia Poverty Law Center's Valerie LHerrou writes in a guest column.

Dia Figueroa, an eighth-grader from Annandale, organized the rally as part of the grassroots50501 Movement, an effort to have a protest in each state.

"Oer the Wide and Plastic Sea" examines the intersection of institutional power and nature through compositions of repurposed debris, much of it found in relative proximity to the museum grounds the Virginia Beach Oceanfront.