
Virginia State Police welcomes new executive team member to staff
Richard K. Boyd has joined the executive team of the Virginia State Police as a major and deputy director of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation.

Richard K. Boyd has joined the executive team of the Virginia State Police as a major and deputy director of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation.

Virginia Tech, University of Virginia Medical Center and Sentara Healthcare have been awarded contracts to participate in a project that will expand the Commonwealth’s COVID-19 testing capacity.

Toni Calasanti was conducting a study on older adults who care for spouses or partners with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia when the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in the United States.

When the highly invasive spotted lanternfly was first discovered in the woods surrounding Kate Reed’s Winchester home, it occurred in such small numbers that finding it required a short trip and careful observation in a small area of trees.

More than a half century after taking on the ultimate act of service, the name of 1st Lt. Gary Lee Miller has been rightly placed in a position of honor at Virginia Tech.

Gov. Ralph Northam has announced two allocations of Growth and Opportunity for Virginia grants, totaling more than $9 million, that will go to support more than 30 local, regional and statewide projects.

As the presidential race seems to tighten, ever so slightly, in the final week of the 2020 season, Virginia is about as safe as it can be for Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

Virginia’s economy retracted 8.1 percent in the second quarter of 2020 as the full force of the COVID-19 response was felt. Against that backdrop, four of the seven local economies in our coverage area actually showed at least modest growth in the second quarter.

With over 1 million early votes already cast in the Commonwealth, NextGen Virginia kicked off its Get Out the Vote efforts this week to mobilize young Virginians to cast absentee ballots in the final days of election season.

The Virginia Department of Emergency Management announced today the receipt of two awards of pre-disaster funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.