Virginia: 35 projects awarded $20M to improve historic sites before Semiquincentennial
Nearly $20 million in grant funding has been awarded to 35 projects across the state through the Virginia 250 Preservation Fund.
Nearly $20 million in grant funding has been awarded to 35 projects across the state through the Virginia 250 Preservation Fund.

A new VCU poll, out on Friday, has Democrat Abigail Spanberger with a 10-point lead on Republican Winsome Earle-Sears in the 2025 governor’s race.

Two giant pandas made their public debut on Friday at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Washington, D.C.

A Virginia man pleaded guilty to real estate and tax fraud after he attempted to buy a $1.3 million home in Roanoke County with a fake check.
The driver of a vehicle reported stolen died in a four-vehicle crash on Interstate 195 in Richmond Wednesday night.
Construction funds for the Waynesboro campus of a natural history museum have been left out of the state’s budget once again.
VMI alum Erik S. Siebert was sworn in on Tuesday as the interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, where he will oversee a staff of approximately 300 prosecutors, civil litigators, and support personnel.
VDOT has updated the schedules for road work in the Staunton District and Culpeper District for the week of Jan. 20-24.
Three percent of U.S. high school students identify as transgender. Republicans won’t rest until they all die by suicide.

Glenn Youngkin and Jason Miyares are doing everything short of shouting the n-word in their responses to President Biden’s move to grant clemency to two innocent Black men serving life sentences for a murder a jury said they didn’t commit.
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