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Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Wakefield, VA – The National Weather Service in Wakefield is monitoring a developing coastal low-pressure system that will impact eastern Virginia, northeast North Carolina, and the southern Chesapeake Bay...

Authorities said Jose Castro-Rivera, 24, was killed in Virginia.

ODU music student Hassan Smith met Jon Batiste and played the melodica for him. Batiste has expressed an interest in collaborating.

Local elections in Virginia Beach are little more than a year away, and that ticking clock matters to plaintiffs in a federal voting rights suit against the city. The city, too, is aware of the timetable but wants voters to choose their preferred method for selecting local elected officials. And voting is now...

Interested in adopting a pet — or just looking at some adorable pets near you up for adoption? There are dozens of endearing pets up for adoption at animal shelters in and around chesapeake..

Norfolk Public Schools' preschool programs earned ratings of Meeting or Exceeding Expectations from the Virginia Department of Education, with Granby Elementary and Chesterfield Academy earning the highest designation of "Exceeds Expectations".

I drove to Virginia Beach to see if a humble seafood shack could really outshine Maryland on crab cakes. Margie & Ray’s Crabhouse sits low to the ground, with sun-faded signs and a steady line of locals who look like they know what’s good. I listened, ordered, and took notes like my next meal depended on it. If you...

Norfolk Southern hauled more coal for domestic consumption in the third quarter than coal for export, reflecting a trend in where coal moves by railroad. In the three months ending on Sept. 30, Norfolk Southern moved nearly 8.8 million tons of coal for U.S. power plants, according to a financial presentation on...

I first stumbled into Doumar’s on a sticky August afternoon, chasing rumors of a waffle cone machine older than my grandparents. Turns out those rumors were true. Tucked along Monticello Avenue in Norfolk, Virginia, sits a red-roofed drive-in that has been rolling cones by hand since before air conditioning was...

The tie between St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Norfolk and Jackson-Feild Behavioral Health Services in Jarratt dates to one of the darkest periods in Virginia history. It relates to the yellow fever epidemic that began in the summer of 1855 and killed one-third of the population of Norfolk and Portsmouth. While many...