(WDBJ) - A body was recovered Tuesday night, hours after crews responded to the Rural Retreat Lake boat ramp for a possible drowning. Rural Retreat rescue and fire crews responded to the area ...

During the first week of June, a local high school student also caught a four-and-a-half long fish at the lake. Related Story: High school student catches a four-foot-long fish at Rural Retreat ...

According to the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, Whalen’s body was pulled Sunday from the Rural Retreat Lake around 8:56 p.m. by a dive team. The body was transported to Wythe ...

Saturday evening, 17-year-old Harley Mitchell was fishing from a boat with friends inside the 90-acres of Rural Retreat lake when he hooked what may have been a state record fish - a grass carp ...