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Workers for the Flying Food Group (FFG) plant in Inglewood, California are on strike, demanding a living wage, a decent pension, the retention of their health benefits, and their dignity as workers.
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The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors will meet Friday to consider a 4.9 percent tuition increase for in-state and out-of-state undergraduate and graduate students.
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A new combined analysis of three clinical trials has determined that an artificial pancreas developed at UVA improves blood sugar for children and adults.
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A series of listening sessions by Staunton’s DEI Commission will offer community members opportunities to share their stories.
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The 7th Annual Project GROWS Plant Sale and Open House will be Friday, May 12, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the farm in Augusta County.
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Brandy Johnson, a 7th grade Language Arts teacher at Shelburne Middle School, is the 2024 Region V Teacher of the Year.
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The girls basketball head coach job at Stuarts Draft High School quietly came open after an Augusta Free Press report in February drew public attention to head coach James Carter’s prominent antigovernment militia tattoo.
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Nominations are now being accepted for the 2023 Virginia Governor’s Awards on Volunteerism and Community Service.
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Democrats aren’t ceding the newly-created Third Senate District to Republicans. Jade Harris, the former vice mayor of Glasgow, is on the ballot as the Democratic nominee in the far-flung district, which stretches from Staunton and Waynesboro down I-81 to the Roanoke suburbs.
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“Our world needs climate action on all fronts — everything, everywhere, all at once,” Secretary-General António Guterres said as he introduced the latest report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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