From colonial towns to seaport villages, some of the oldest towns in the United States take you back in time to eras gone by.

Part of West Virginia’s northern border with Pennsylvania is a straight line that runs east and west along what is known as ...

A U.S. jury has awarded $42 million to three former detainees of Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison, holding a Virginia-based ...

West Virginia governor-elect Republican Patrick Morrisey will be sworn in Jan. 13. Morrisey, who has served as West ...

Virginia is granting more than $3.9 million to protect 621 acres of lands where Civil War battles raged, including two sites in Henrico County and one in Dinwiddie County, Gov. Glenn Youngkin said.

The Droop Mountain Battlefield became the first West Virginia State Park and part of the Civil War Discovery Trail, now known ...

He had experience in Congress as both a representative and senator, and had been secretary of war under President Franklin ...

When you think about spending one day in Virginia, you might picture a day in Virginia Beach, Richmond, or Charlottesville. But these cities aren’t the only ...

PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) — For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans ...

WEBSTER SPRINGS, W.Va. — Perhaps no county in West Virginia is as isolated as Webster County. Entirely mountainous, no ...

Yet this easternmost town in West Virginia didn’t gain national fame until the Civil War. It was here, in 1859, that ...