
Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance announces new executive director
Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance announced the selection of Andrea Dono as its new executive director.

Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance announced the selection of Andrea Dono as its new executive director.

In 1964, the first two women enrolled in the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. Today, 200-plus women are studying at Darden.

Alex Miller, an economics major at EMU, was recognized by Mennonite Economic Development Association as one of “20 Under 35 Changing the World.”

The 2015 Governor’s Emergency Medical Services Award winners were recently announced at the 36th annual Governor’s EMS Awards Ceremony in Norfolk.

Most people who carry the Toxoplasma gondii parasite don’t develop the symptoms of the disease it can cause.

Virginia athletics director Craig Littlepage had taken to carrying that Capital One Cup around as a protective shield.

New Virginia football coach Bronco Mendenhall will coach BYU in the 2015 Las Vegas Bowl, the school announced Friday.

Albemarle County has named David Hannah as its new Natural Resources Manager, effective December 1.

The pitch at Klöckner Stadium has been tabbed as college soccer’s 2015 Field of the Year by the Sports Turf Managers Association (STMA).

Following today’s announcement of the final conference report on the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to replace No Child Left Behind, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine welcomed the bill’s inclusion of key provisions he authored to help prevent sexual assault and strengthen career and technical education (CTE) in schools across the country.
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