Virginia Department of Health reports two children dead from flu
The first two pediatric flu deaths in the 2024-25 influenza season have been reported by the Virginia Department of Health.
The first two pediatric flu deaths in the 2024-25 influenza season have been reported by the Virginia Department of Health.

Now we enter the dog days of winter, as it were, with no Thanksgiving warmth or Christmas joy to save us from the bitter cold, and no holiday of significance to pull us through to the warm promise of spring (no, Valentine’s Day doesn’t count).
The sweeping wildfires in Los Angeles are just another horrific manifestation of the rapidly increasing and deadly effects of climate change.
Live Arts Theater’s 2024-2025 Voyages Season continues with the Virginia premiere of “Marys Seacole,” a time-travelling chronicle.
Days before Christmas, amid a national rush to deliver holiday packages, thousands of Amazon workers began a strike in four states.
The Water Resources and Development Act (WRDA) of 2024, legislation to help maintain clean drinking water, has passed U.S. Congress.
UVA Football has a game with Norfolk State on the schedule in the 2026 season. The legendary dogfighting guy, Michael Vick, will be on the sidelines on that particular fall Saturday for Norfolk State.
Back in the 2010s, years before we’d moved back to Virginia, our family’s only exposure to Staunton came on Thanksgiving.
Once again we find ourselves approaching that time of year when, as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln proclaimed, we’re supposed to give thanks as a nation and as individuals for our safety and our freedoms.
New Dominion Bookshop in Charlottesville will host a book talk and signing with author Leigh Ann Henion on Saturday, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m.