The race for the vacant 38th District Virginia Senate seat now has a legal challenge, a rushed primary, a potential frontrunner who declined to run and two new candidates.

With everyone stuck inside during the pandemic, an Abingdon stay-at-home mom has found a way to keep the family a central part of her daily life while also managing to bring in a few extra bucks.

If Keith Powers listens hard enough, he might hear the sweet sounds of the dulcimer he played as a teen drifting through the memories of his mountain home. He made his first dulcimer in 1973 at the age of 17. The second came along about three years later. But, it took him more than 40 years to make the next.

A field of at least six Republican hopefuls will vie for their party’s nomination Thursday in a “firehouse primary” to fill the vacant 38th District Senate seat.

The vehicle line at the drive-thru COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the Bristol Dragway Thursday began forming at 5 a.m., four hours before the Sullivan County Regional Health Department actually started administering the vaccines.

Local donations of convalescent plasma used to treat seriously ill COVID-19 patients declined sharply since Christmas despite record numbers of cases across the region, forcing Ballad Health to purchase plasma elsewhere.

Education, unemployment, criminal justice reform and constitutional carry are among the top issues Northeast Tennessee’s state representatives said they’ll focus on during the Tennessee General Assembly’s session, which started Tuesday in Nashville.