
Northam announces administration appointments
Gov. Ralph Northam announced additional appointments to his administration this week.

Gov. Ralph Northam announced additional appointments to his administration this week.

The Virginia Department of Emergency Management will be hosting 13 sub-regional workshops across 40 local jurisdictions this summer.

The Virginia Department of Health is partnering with Health and Human Services’ Increasing Community Access to Testing program to provide COVID-19 testing at no cost at select Dollar General store locations in Altavista, Williamsburg and Norfolk.

Gov. Ralph Northam this week announced the recipients of the 2020 Governor’s Fire Service Awards, in conjunction with the Virginia Department of Fire Programs and the Virginia Fire Services Board.

Virginia Tech sophomore Evan Allen knows his way around Reddit’s r/WallStreetBets, an online forum where millions of users gather to talk about the stock market.

The 2021 Memorial Day weekend not only saw an increase in overall traffic volumes on Virginia’s highways, but also an increase in traffic deaths.

Ørsted and Eversource will charter Dominion Energy’s Charybdis, the first Jones Act-qualified offshore wind turbine installation vessel in the United States, for the construction of two offshore wind farms in the Northeast.

VDOT will make Memorial Day weekend travel easier by suspending most highway work zones and lifting most lane closures on interstates and other major roads in Virginia.

Second District Congresswoman Elaine Luria will host a virtual town hall on the ongoing federal response to COVID-19 and vaccine distribution.

State-run Community Vaccination Clinics will begin offering the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to adolescents aged 12-15 on Friday.
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