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offshore wind

Feds announce offshore wind energy lease sale: Capacity to power up to 2.2M homes

Chris Graham
Published date: June 28, 2024 | 10:55 am
Updated: August 20, 2025 | 12:17 pm
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The U.S. Department of the Interior announced Friday that it will hold an offshore wind energy lease sale in the Mid-Atlantic, including a 176,505-acre site off Virginia’s coast.

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Drought: City of Staunton asking residents, businesses to reduce water use

Chris Graham
Published date: June 25, 2024 | 11:02 am
Updated: August 5, 2024 | 6:24 pm
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The City of Staunton is asking city residents and business owners to voluntarily reduce their water use as the area deals with drought conditions.

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Court rules suit challenging Youngkin move to drop Virginia from RGGI can proceed

Chris Graham
Published date: June 24, 2024 | 6:02 pm
Updated: June 1, 2025 | 3:17 pm
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A Floyd County court ruled on Monday that a suit against the state to challenge Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s move to disengage Virginia from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative can proceed.

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Shenandoah Valley, Northern Virginia under Drought Warning Advisory

Chris Graham
Published date: June 24, 2024 | 5:30 pm
Updated: July 23, 2024 | 7:17 pm
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The Shenandoah Valley and Northern Virginia were placed under a Drought Warning Advisory by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality on Monday.

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Lynchburg, Lee County receive HUD grants for public-housing improvements

Chris Graham
Published date: June 23, 2024 | 2:23 pm
Updated: July 6, 2024 | 10:19 am
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Lynchburg and Lee County have been awarded federal grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development for capital improvements in public housing.

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Report: Chesapeake Bay ‘dead zones’ expected to be above average this year

Chris Graham
Published date: June 22, 2024 | 11:23 am
Updated: June 1, 2025 | 3:17 pm
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The Chesapeake Bay’s so-called “dead zones” – low-oxygen areas that can suffocate underwater life and shrink available habitat – are expected to be above average this year.

fascism

Mission Creep: How the police state acclimates us to being modern-day slaves

John Whitehead
Published date: June 22, 2024 | 11:11 am
Updated: July 19, 2025 | 6:32 pm
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Like the proverbial boiling frogs, the government has been gradually acclimating us to the specter of a police state for years now.

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Virginia Tech entomologist: Ticks are everywhere, and they’re not going away

Crystal Graham
Published date: June 20, 2024 | 5:10 pm
Updated: April 9, 2025 | 10:57 am
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Ticks are everywhere, and they’re not going to go away, according to a Virginia Tech entomologist.

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Augusta County man alleges ‘hate crime’ in decade-old sewer project: Investigation

Chris Graham
Published date: June 20, 2024 | 11:29 am
Updated: May 6, 2025 | 10:45 am
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Back around the first of the year, a reader named David Proffitt wrote me the first of dozens of emails, and counting, asking me to look into what he called a “hate crime” involving a sewer project in Augusta County.

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Community stakeholders form Staunton Black Business Collective

Rebecca Barnabi
Published date: June 19, 2024 | 2:55 pm
Updated: August 25, 2025 | 6:51 pm
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A group of community stakeholders has organized to help grow Black business in Staunton with the Staunton Black Business Collective.

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