The Virginia Department of Health this week urged people to avoid the water on more than 50 miles of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River due to dangerous toxic algal mats recently reported in ...

Water quality monitoring at 40% of the locations tested in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley this year detected levels of fecal bacteria that made the waters unsafe for swimming, tubing, kayaking, or ...

ROANOKE - Environmentalists have filed notice that they will take the state to court over an agreement with the town of Broadway allowing a wastewater treatment plant to continue discharging high ...

As of 6 a.m. Friday morning, multiple wildfires are still burning in and around the Shenandoah Valley region. As firefighters continue to work to put out fires, the air quality is going to change ...

Remnants of Hurricane Helene — which caused catastrophic damage, injuries and deaths across the Southeast — are affecting rivers closer to the nation’s capital. Wednesday morning, the Shenandoah River ...

The Shenandoah River has become a stream of death, losing thousands of its fabled smallmouth bass to a problem yet to be named by officials. Who would believe something of this magnitude could occur ...

Washington, D.C. — Do you want to know what's in a large majority of the waterways in the Shenandoah Valley? Poop — and a lot of it apparently. About three quarters of Virginia’s water monitoring ...

ALONG SKYLINE DRIVE, Va. -- The air pollution at Shenandoah National Park got so bad in recent decades that rangers put up an exhibit explaining the dark veil that often obscures the park's ...

Air quality index on Nov. 16, 2023 per Elizabeth Szabo's IQAir monitor in Staunton. As of 6 a.m. Friday morning, multiple wildfires are still burning in and around the Shenandoah Valley region. As ...