
What’s making news in climate, environment: January 2026 update
Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger detailed her plans to make utility bills more affordable, as the cost of electricity continues to rise.

Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger detailed her plans to make utility bills more affordable, as the cost of electricity continues to rise.
Christopher Darnell Jones got five life sentences plus 23 years for the Nov. 13, 2022, shootings of five UVA student-athletes.
The Robert E. Lee High School Class of 1975 will honor a father and son who were pillars of the community throughout their lives.
John Wetzel, a basketball star at Wilson Memorial High School in Augusta County in the early 1960s, was drafted out of Virginia Tech by the Los Angeles Lakers in the eighth round as the 75th overall pick in 1966.
Not grading on a curve this year, because this year’s UVA Football team looks like the real deal. You give the head coach $30 million to build a roster, you expect him to build a roster.
In honor of the zeitgeist, I’ve come to the rash decision to abandon my decade-long stance of anti-Trumpism and go all aboard on the Trump train.

VDOT and the City of Lexington will dedicate newly completed pedestrian-access improvements on North Main Street (Route 11 Business).
Lane High graduate Mike Cubbage played Major League Baseball for eight seasons, once challenged Rod Carew and Fred Lynn for a batting title and then managed in The Show after his playing career.
The prosecution of a Staunton tow truck company owner charged with misdemeanor reckless driving in a “coal rolling” incident at the Augusta County Courthouse at an April 5 political rally will be handled by … me?
In all, five natives of Staunton made it Major League Baseball as players – and three of them were named Larry.
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