Until this week when Major League Fishing held its B&W Heavy Hitters All-Star Tournament at Smith Mountain Lake, it had been more than a decade since SML hosted a major bass circuit fishing tournament ...

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 ...

Sgt. Kenneth Williams is expecting a busy Memorial Day weekend on the water at Smith Mountain Lake. He encourages boat operators to be safe and sober while enjoying the lake.

Smith Mountain Lake is the primary source of drinking water for customers in the Westlake and Scruggs Road areas of Franklin County. “This drinking water is filtered and disinfected prior to ...

The big news at Shaver Lake is the 24.48-pound brown trout landed by Steve Jones of Clovis trolling a pink hoochie behind a 6 ...

At least three people were injured in a collision between a jet skipersonal watercraft and a boat on Smith Mountain Lake Thursday night. Todd Ohlerich, chief of the Smith Mountain Lake Marine ...

A workshop on the Smith Farm, a 307-acre tract on Smith Mountain Lake, was held last week with county officials seeking guidance from the board on how to proceed with potential development.

The family of one of the men killed in a deadly Smith Lake boating incident in April is suing the bass boat driver, Major ...

LAKE COUNTY, Fla. — If recent land purchases are any indication, The Villages developers may be looking to expand further into Lake County. The tri-county development just bought 900-acres of ...