Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Great Dismal Swamp is home to one of Virginia’s highest concentrations of black bears, according to the Virginia Department of ...

SUFFOLK, Va. — The National Park Service say a National Heritage Area represents much more than the land it covers; it tells the story of a region and the people who lived in it. The proposed Great ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) – The Norfolk District’s U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced that the Great Dismal Swamp Canal will be temporarily closed. Starting on Jan. 8 through March 31, the Great ...

The Great Dismal Swamp, as the name given to it by mosquito-swatting British colonists implies, isn’t always hospitable to humans. Although it’s now part of a popular national wildlife refuge and ...

Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge Manager, Chris Lowie, explains that Lake Drummond is referred to as the “heart of the swamp,” because the water it supplies sustains the surrounding ...

At the extreme eastern reaches of Virginia and North Carolina, straddling the boundary separating those two states, lies the swamp named the Great Dismal. It includes approximately 1,000 square miles ...

SUFFOLK -- Smoke from wildfires in the Great Dismal Swamp and a larger fire in North Carolina has settled in like a rude summer guest among the 1.6 million people of Hampton Roads. At times it has ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va (Reuters) - The legacy of George Washington's centuries-old logging venture in the Great Dismal Swamp is contributing to the possible demise of a valuable ecosystem as a barely ...

Train cars full of coal went off the tracks in the Great Dismal Swamp this week. The 36 Norfolk Southern train cars derailed at 4:20 a.m. Tuesday “in the boundaries of the Great Dismal Swamp National ...