"Drain the swamp" may be a popular political slogan, but it doesn't always work so well in nature. In southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife ...

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 ...

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 ...

SUFFOLK — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says a fire in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is backing up. The blaze started on Monday when a piece of timbering equipment caught fire.

SUFFOLK, Va. (AP) — Coal train derails into Great Dismal Swamp wildlife refuge in Virginia; 36 cars went off tracks, cleanup underway.

Civil War history is part of the preservation story at several National Wildlife Refuges, including the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in Suffolk.

NORFOLK, Va. — A Virginia congressman has introduced a bill that would designate the Great Dismal Swamp a National Heritage Area, which could bring federal funding for historic preservation. The ...