
Northam announces administration appointments
Gov. Ralph Northam announced additional appointments on Friday.

Gov. Ralph Northam announced additional appointments on Friday.

The social, economic, and health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have disproportionately affected underserved populations in the United States.

The day starts early for interns at the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center.

Virginia has committed $8.5 million to upgrade infrastructure at Progress Park in Wythe County, and now a major joint venture is committing to build a manufacturing operation there that projects to employ 2,500 people and produce up to 60 billion medical gloves a year.

The CDC has awarded a $6 million grant to two VCU researchers who will co-lead a project on community-led strategies to promote healthy communities, positive youth development opportunities, and to prevent and decrease youth violence in Richmond.

SCHOCK GmbH, the inventor of quartz composite sinks, will invest $85 million to establish its first U.S. manufacturing operation in Henry County.

Gov. Ralph Northam announced the start of Virginia’s sixth annual Governor’s High School Voter Registration Challenge, an effort to encourage schools to register as many of their voting-age population as possible.

Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) has introduced legislation that would create an emergency supply of key ingredients used in essential generic medicines and incentivize domestic manufacturing of these ingredients.

Beds of native plants can potentially provide enormous benefits to a wide variety of threatened and dwindling pollinator species.

Southern Virginia Vegetable Packing LLC has partnered with Brunswick County Industrial Development Authority to construct a new, 45,000 square-foot, $4.2 million produce processing and packing facility.
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