
Virginia crop farmers welcome warmer weather
After an unusually cool, wet spring, this week’s summer heat was a welcome change for Southeast Virginia farmers, whose small grains need warmer weather to thrive.

After an unusually cool, wet spring, this week’s summer heat was a welcome change for Southeast Virginia farmers, whose small grains need warmer weather to thrive.

Congresswoman Elaine Luria participated in a House Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces hearing to hear perspectives from outside the Navy about future force structure requirements and ship capacity and employment.

The Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association and VHHA Foundation offering resources focused on curbing community violence.

So you say you have a large winning Virginia Lottery ticket, and you didn’t want to mail it to the Lottery while its offices were closed?

The Virginia Department of Health will begin reporting COVID-19 data on testing encounters by health district using more accurate ZIP Code information.

The Department of Game and Inland Fisheries announced a harvest of 20,525 turkeys during the 2020 spring gobbler season.

Don’t pity this year’s crop of graduates because this COVID-19 pandemic caused them to miss out on the antics of their senior year and the pomp and circumstance of graduation.

The 2020 Memorial Day weekend not only netted a reduction in overall traffic volumes on Virginia’s highways, but also a slight decrease in traffic deaths.

Old Dominion and East Carolina have signed a six-game football series that will begin in 2022, achieving a top priority on the checklist of ODU Athletics Director Dr. Wood Selig.

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the number of people interested in home vegetable gardening, said Dave Close, Virginia Cooperative Extension consumer horticulture specialist and Extension Master Gardener program director.
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