
Fund dedicates $1M to support port host community improvements
New state port host community grants will help Virginia’s oyster industry upgrade the Menchville Marina in Newport News.

New state port host community grants will help Virginia’s oyster industry upgrade the Menchville Marina in Newport News.

Gov. Ralph Northam’s African American History Education Commission is holding meetings across Virginia as commission members examine how to strengthen African American history education in the Commonwealth’s public schools.

More than 11 percent of adults in the Diabetes Belt, a swath of the southeast that includes Virginia, has diabetes.

Three members of the Waynesboro School Board announced today their re-election bids for the May 5 municipal elections.

The tragic news involving Kobe Bryant had me thinking of a couple of near-misses involving UVA Athletics teams.

James Madison University is embarking on a new approach to matching students with job and internship opportunities.

Sheila Turnage, author of Three Times Lucky, a Newbery Honor book and a New York Times bestseller, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 3, in Cole Hall.

The number of Virginians who telecommute is up 43 percent since 2010, according to research from Hamilton Lombard at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.

Gov. Ralph Northam announced this week that applications for the 2020 Governor’s Fellows Program will be accepted through Monday, March 9.

Gene Corrigan, a former UVA athletics director, ACC commissioner and NCAA president, died peacefully overnight surrounded by his family in Charlottesville.
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