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Danville is one of the top eight communities with a shot at winning an award for revitalization of its commercial district. The city’s River District Association announced Tuesday morning that the city is a semifinalist for the Great American ...

North Main Street and the corridor from the North Carolina line to West Main Street and Schoolfield could both use a facelift, according to city officials.

Danville officials have changed where it will allow medical cannabis dispensaries in the city. The change comes after a cannabis dispensing company, Dharma Pharmaceuticals, LLC, decided they no longer wanted to locate in the city’s ...

The Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History has received designation as a site on the historic U.S. Civil Rights Trail, officials announced Tuesday morning. The trail debuted in 2018 and includes more than 120 sites — churches, schools, ...

Two solar projects are planned in Pittsylvania County. An 800-acre, 125-megawatt project is anticipated near the Southern Virginia Megasite at Berry Hill in the southwestern part of the county. Another 60-megawatt project covering about 370 ...

British aerospace and defense components manufacturer MEP Ltd. isn’t moving into its U.S. facility for another few years, but that isn’t stopping the company from getting its operation off the ground in Danville sooner. In August 2021, MEP ...

In what could be viewed as the most ironic of circumstances, 2021 is ending the same way it began: surging COVID-19 cases proving the coronavirus pandemic is still in control. Amid the gloom — between then and now — there were days, weeks and ...

Construction of a $25.5 million Center for Manufacturing Advancement at Danville’s Institute for Advanced Learning and Research is just the latest step in Danville’s decades-long effort to turn Danville into an advanced manufacturing hub. “We ...