An annual rite of spring in Virginia is underway. The hickory and American shad runs are in their early stages, but some fish are being taken in Chesapeake Bay tributaries. Shad return from the sea ...

More than 70 years ago, a 14-year-old Jim Fearson took an after-school job at a little gas station on the Virginia side of Chain Bridge. Each spring, the river below would fill with shad on their ...

Bony fish. Pine trees. Signs. Pols. Hacks. Dust. Beer. More signs. Speeches. More beer. Press. A thousand or so assorted Virginians. These are the unvarying components of the shad planking, during ...

WAKEFIELD, Va. — When Democratic Sen. Mark Warner ventured onstage Wednesday at a festive fish-smoke in the Virginia woods, he was well aware he was in the minority. The annual Shad Planking, a ...

Today is the big day for politicians statewide as they follow political signs lining the miles of rural roadway leading to the piney woods where the 63rd Annual Shad Planking is taking place in ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR) — Here is a round-up of the latest outdoors news from across southwest and central Virginia. An annual rite of spring in Virginia is underway. The hickory and American shad runs ...