
LEGO invests $1B to build manufacturing facility in Chesterfield County
The LEGO Group will invest over $1 billion to construct its U.S. manufacturing plant in Chesterfield County.

The LEGO Group will invest over $1 billion to construct its U.S. manufacturing plant in Chesterfield County.

Eleven Virginia cities and counties will receive $214,000 in state funds to support new investments into the infrastructure supporting their local food and farming systems.

Duke basketball coach Jon Scheyer has announced the additions of Jacob Grandison and Max Johns, who will join the Blue Devils as graduate transfers for the 2022-23 season.

The U.S. lags as a distant third among electric vehicle (EV) sales and production. According to Bloomberg, China claims a whopping 46 percent of global EV sales.

How can anyone sleep at night? My first nightmare about environmental crisis occurred in 1990. I was eight years old. In it, acid rain poured from the sky, scalding the skin of humans and stripping holes in the leaves of trees.

High Liner Foods Incorporated (High Liner Foods), a leading North American value-added frozen seafood company, will continue to invest in modernizing its facility in Newport News with new equipment and product lines.

Nodal Exchange, a Fairfax-based derivatives exchange providing price, credit, and liquidity risk management solutions to participants in the North American commodities markets, will invest $300,000 to expand in Fairfax County.

The national average gas price topped the $5 per gallon mark for the first time ever, according to GasBuddy, after months of gas price increases across the country, accelerated by the rise in seasonal demand amidst supply constraints borne out of the pandemic.

The USDA Forest Service and partners released the Chesapeake Forest Restoration storymap highlighting collaborative restoration efforts throughout the watershed during Chesapeake Bay Awareness Week.

A construction project to improve accessibility and safety at the Amtrak stop in Ashland has been completed.
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