
VDOT lifting lane closures to ease Easter weekend travel
VDOT wants to make your Easter weekend trip a little easier by suspending most road closures from noon Friday, April 19, until noon Tuesday, April 23.

VDOT wants to make your Easter weekend trip a little easier by suspending most road closures from noon Friday, April 19, until noon Tuesday, April 23.

Governor Ralph Northam announced $2.2 million in Homeless Reduction Grants through the Virginia Housing Trust Fund (VHTF) for 30 projects in Virginia.

Three student-designed and developed small satellites are set for launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Virginia’s Eastern Shore on April 17.

Wednesday, at the monthly meeting of the Commonwealth Transportation Board, Secretary of Transportation Shannon Valentine announced the launch of the Interstate 95 Corridor Improvement Plan.

Virginia First Lady Pamela Northam, Secretary of Education Atif Qarni, and Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry Bettina Ring are calling on the Commonwealth’s school nutrition programs to increase annual statewide local food purchases to at least $22 million by 2022.

Preferred Freezer Services, one of the largest public refrigerated warehousing companies in the world, will invest $60 million to construct a 200,000-square-foot cold storage warehouse in the City of Portsmouth.

Thousands of volunteers and dozens of partner organizations are needed from the Shenandoah Valley to the Eastern Shore to join in the major annual effort to pick up litter from Virginia waterways during Clean the Bay Day this June.

Virginia lawmakers returned to Richmond to respond to Gov. Ralph Northam’s recommendations on legislation during the annual Reconvened Session.

U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine called on the Senate Armed Services Committee to include in the upcoming National Defense Authorization Act portions of an essential bill to address hazards in private military housing.

No Kid Hungry Virginia and partners announced the winners of the third annual Virginia Breakfast Challenge, a campaign to increase school breakfast participation across the state.
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