
Blue Ridge Health District prioritizes accessibility and inclusion
The Blue Ridge Health District partnered with a Charlottesville-based disability inclusion startup to boost training, awareness, and transparency.

The Blue Ridge Health District partnered with a Charlottesville-based disability inclusion startup to boost training, awareness, and transparency.
A Winchester man was arrested today on criminal charges related to his alleged straw purchase of a firearm which was used four days later in a homicide in Washington, D.C.

The Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville shook the Central Virginia city to its core when a counterdemonstrator was killed in a deadly car attack on the Downtown Mall.

When Donald Trump was in office, he and Mitch McConnell made three lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court. McConnell went so far as to defy Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dying wish—that the next president appoint her replacement—by packing the Court with Amy Coney Barrett just eight days before the 2020 election.

UVA pitchers Nate Savino and Brandon Neeck and Liberty pitcher Mason Fluharty were selected on the second day of the 2022 MLB Draft.

The University of Virginia launched its AccessUVA program aimed at increasing low-income enrollment way back in 2004, but UVA still ranks among the bottom five public colleges and universities nationally in the enrollment of students from low-income backgrounds.

Public transportation in Staunton, August County and Waynesboro began with 12 mule-drawn carts in 1890 provided by the city of Staunton.

Farmers, pesticide dealers, pest control firms, certified applicators, homeowners and golf course operators may participate in the 2022 Virginia pesticide collection program to dispose of unwanted, outdated or banned pesticides.

Tickets are on sale for “Soul of the City and SB Entertainment Present: Kerwin Claiborne Theese Folks Crazy Comedy Special” on Thursday, August 4 at 8 p.m. at The Paramount Theater in Charlottesville.

New Dominion Bookshop will host a book reading and signing with poet and UVA professor emeritus Gregory Orr on Saturday, August 27, at 2 p.m.
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