
Commonwealth Transportation Board highway safety team, approves I-81 improvement plan
Secretary of Transportation Shannon Valentine on Wednesday presented Gov. Ralph Northam’s Executive Leadership Team on Highway Safety.

Secretary of Transportation Shannon Valentine on Wednesday presented Gov. Ralph Northam’s Executive Leadership Team on Highway Safety.

Toucans, tarantulas, hoatzins, scarlet macaws, and caiman. Those are just a few of the species observed by Virginia Tech students this past summer while studying abroad in one of the most biodiverse places on Earth.

Gov. Ralph Northam on Tuesday issued Executive Directive Two which establishes an Executive Leadership Team on Highway Safety that is charged with reducing the rising number of fatalities on Virginia’s roadways.

Scott Hearn has been named the first men’s baseball coach at Mary Baldwin University, with an eye toward the program’s opening season in 2020.

Virginia Tech is reaching out to Native American communities by tapping into one of its greatest resources: its students.

The University of Virginia’s public radio station, WTJU 91.1 FM, will soon be moving to its biggest and best location in its six decades of broadcasting to the Charlottesville community.

The Albemarle County Parks and Recreation Department along with its project design partners presented an updated master plan for Biscuit Run Park to the Board of Supervisors during a work session earlier in November.

Each football season ignites a drumbeat of media interest in concussion; all year round, research on the subject is flourishing. But despite substantial scientific progress and an uptick in public awareness, fundamental questions are still unresolved.

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, applauded Committee passage of legislation he introduced with Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) called the Building Our Largest Dementia (BOLD) Infrastructure for Alzheimer’s Act.

Governor Ralph Northam is urging Virginians to help drive change in the Commonwealth’s traffic safety culture by joining the Toward Zero Deaths Virginia movement.
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