The Smith Mountain Lake area has seen remarkable change over the years. Once known mainly as a haven for campers and anglers, ...

Virginia’s Blue Ridge is rich in music, craft, and story — a cultural legacy as enduring as the mountains themselves. At the ...

Roosters Rise -N- Shine Distillery in Franklin County blends tradition with 10 moonshine flavors, cocktails, and a nod to ...

Gardening ethic emphasizes cover cropping: stewardship boosting soil health, productivity, biodiversity, and resilience.

Courtney Hayler, a passionate stay-at-home-mom, turned her love for sourdough bread into a thriving business, with popular ...

The unassuming white turnip has been knocking around Virginia since French and English colonists introduced it in the 17th ...

The foundation for the dam that today holds back Smith Mountain Lake was laid more than 500 million years ago. In the late Pre-Cambrian era, long before the appearance of dinosaurs, fish, land plants ...

Emma Coleman 540-981-3198 Jul 30, 2022 Jul 30, 2022 Updated Sep 7, 2023 A new statewide, searchable cold case database sparked a new lead in a 19-year-old murder investigation late last month. “I just ...

Laker Magazine this year is celebrating several businesses that have served the Smith Mountain Lake community since its very early years. Part 1 (in July/August issue, available online at ...

Stacker presents the worst comedy films of all time, based on data from IMDb and Metacritic. Each film needed at least 2,500 votes on IMDb to qualify.

With dramatic mountains dropping suddenly into water contrasting against hundreds of quiet coves, it’s hard to imagine a time when Smith Mountain Lake wasn’t a major movie star. Its beauty is vast, ...