FRANKLIN COUNTY, Va. – The Smith Mountain Lake community got to hear more about why some of the lake water has been a blueish-green color. WSLS 10 News has been following the harmful algal bloom ...

BEDFORD COUNTY, Va. – Smith Mountain Lake State Park is in the running for a USA Today “10 Best Award” as one of the best lakeside beaches. Andy Bruns, executive director of the Smith Mountain Lake ...

SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE, Va. (WDBJ) - The average water quality at Smith Mountain Lake continues to be good and consistent with the 20-year averages measured. That’s according to the most recent data ...

SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE, Va. (WSET) — Do not swim. At the beginning of the month, that message was broadcast to folks in the Smith Mountain Lake (SML) area after a harmful algal bloom broke out. Now, on ...

SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE, Va. (WDBJ) - The SMLA Water Quality Monitoring program finished up the final monitoring session for the year and overall results show “very good” water quality in Smith Mountain ...

WESTLAKE CORNER, Va. (WFXR) — Smith Mountain Lake is getting some big-time national fishing exposure this week. Major League Fishing (MLF), one of the top professional bass fishing circuits in the ...

Tennis coach Tony Adams, 62, of Lorton, Virginia, used to work at Virginia schools and was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a child. Amherst County celebrates annual Christmas ...

PARSONS, W.Va. — A Tucker County angler is still trying to process an amazing weekend of fishing at neighboring Virginia’s Smith Mountain Lake. Scott Lycliter and his son participated in the Big Bass ...

Smith Mountain Lake in Franklin County, Virginia. (Photo by Casey Johnson/Getty Images) A Franklin County jury has awarded $750,000 in damages to two families who were evicted from a Smith Mountain ...

The Tri-County Lakes Administrative Commission approved some changes to navigation around Smith Mountain Lake last week in an effort to improve safety around the lake. A long-discussed no-wake zone at ...

It has been said that you can tell a lot about a person by how they treat a waiter or waitress. In this case, it was a lot of ...

ROANOKE — The Blackwater River arm of Smith Mountain Lake in Bedford, Franklin and Pittsylvania counties are experiencing a harmful algal bloom, according to the Virginia Department of Health. The ...