Bridgewater College invites community to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Members of the community are invited to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with Bridgewater College on Jan. 20.
Members of the community are invited to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with Bridgewater College on Jan. 20.
The Petersburg Post Office is now called the John Mercer Langston Post Office Building after President Joe Biden signed the legislation.
Virginia’s efforts to combat child and youth labor and sex trafficking just got a boost with $1.29 million in grant funds.

Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum resumes its monthly Speaker Series on Monday, Jan. 27, with Gary Dodson, who is retired from the Central Intelligence Agency.

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia was sworn in for his third term on the 119th U.S. Congress on Friday.
Jimmy Carter, the former President, 2002 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Habitat for Humanity volunteer, died on Sunday, at the age of 100.

If getting your finances in order is one of your goals in the new year, an expert at Virginia Tech has some tips to reduce debt.

A UVA Health doctor is one of 12 recipients of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia’s 2025 Outstanding Faculty awards.

White working-class evangelicals voted en masse for Donald Trump to give a platform to Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to call them “lazy,” “mediocre” and “retarded.”
Augusta County Administrator Tim Fitzgerald made the call on Nov. 15 to terminate the contract with a Roanoke-based consultant that the county had hired in 2023.
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