
Kaine, Warner reintroduce bill to modernize aging public schools
U.S. Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark R. Warner have reintroduced the School Infrastructure Modernization Act, legislation to help modernize schools in Virginia and across the nation.

U.S. Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark R. Warner have reintroduced the School Infrastructure Modernization Act, legislation to help modernize schools in Virginia and across the nation.

Congressman A. Donald McEachin (D-VA-04) has announced the start of his annual 2021-2022 Eco Heroes Program, an environmental education program for students in Virginia’s Fourth Congressional District.

Virginia Tech has announced the formation of the Virginia Tech National Security Institute.

The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum History at Home program is back with brand new themes.

Gov. Ralph Northam announced the start of Virginia’s sixth annual Governor’s High School Voter Registration Challenge, an effort to encourage schools to register as many of their voting-age population as possible.

Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) has introduced legislation that would create an emergency supply of key ingredients used in essential generic medicines and incentivize domestic manufacturing of these ingredients.

Hope’s Legacy Equine Rescue is hosting its first Veterans Appreciation Day on Saturday, Nov. 13, at Castle Rock Farm.

Beds of native plants can potentially provide enormous benefits to a wide variety of threatened and dwindling pollinator species.

Southern Virginia Vegetable Packing LLC has partnered with Brunswick County Industrial Development Authority to construct a new, 45,000 square-foot, $4.2 million produce processing and packing facility.

COVID-19 vaccines have been widely available since spring, yet across rural southwest and southern central Virginia, not a single county had more than 40 percent of its population fully vaccinated in mid-August, according to the Virginia Department of Health.
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