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 is home to the ancestral lands of the Nansemond Indian Nation and the historic lands of the Haliwa-Saponi and Meherrin Tribes. The area is also home to the largest known ...

SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Rep. Donald McEachin announced he is reintroducing the Great Dismal Swamp National Heritage Area Act. McEachin says the bill will “provide local and regional communities with the ...

The House of Representatives passed Congressman A. Donald McEachin’s bicameral Great Dismal Swamp National Heritage Area Act. The legislation directs the Secretary of the Interior to assess the ...

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. — A conservation group is buying about 1,300 acres of land that's next to the Great Dismal Swamp in hopes of restoring it to the environmentally unique wetlands it once was. The ...

SUFFOLK, Va. — Chandler Nunnally visits the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in Suffolk, learning about the unique history and wildlife that you can witness firsthand by taking a guided ...

SUFFOLK, Va. -- A wildfire that burned thousands of acres in southeastern Virginia's Great Dismal Swamp over more than three months has been extinguished. Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge ...

The Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge hosts its 13th annual Birding Festival on April 27, with guided bird and nature walks, bus tours, natural history presentations, live raptors, wildlife ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — Work is scheduled to start to improve the Great Dismal Swamp Trail. The work will be done at the Ballahack Boat Ramp. The gravel parking lot will be paved and 15 parking spaces will ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. -- A conservation group is buying about 1,300 acres of land that’s next to the Great Dismal Swamp in hopes of restoring it to the environmentally unique wetlands it once was. The ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — A conservation group is buying about 1,300 acres of land that’s next to the Great Dismal Swamp in hopes of restoring it to the environmentally unique wetlands it once was. The ...