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Two years ago, Waynesboro Schools Superintendent Dr. Jeff Cassell mentioned the possibility of the school system having to cut positions to balance the budget for the first time since The Great Recession.
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A bipartisan coalition in the House of Delegates has announced a legislative package aimed at lowering energy bills in Virginia.
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With little warning or training, thousands of teachers moved from the front of a classroom to behind a computer screen, with many instructing students from both places at once.
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On Jan. 20, Joe Biden will be sworn in as president of the United States.
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Angela Clem, who currently serves as the town manager in Woodstock, will join the Harrisonburg Executive Leadership Team starting March 1.
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The interstate highway system launched in the 1950s as the most ambitious public works project in the world. Spanning 48,000 miles, the system aimed to connect cities and towns throughout the nation.
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The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service will recognize Virginia’s top Earth Team volunteer Keith Thomas at the Virginia Forage and Grassland Council Winter Forage Conference.
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The overall health of the Chesapeake Bay has stagnated the last two years, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation reports, with upticks in water quality offset by a worrisome decline in striped bass, the popular finfish also known regionally as rockfish.
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A lawsuit filed Friday seeks to reverse the Trump administration’s elimination of safeguards that have protected national forests from unneeded, ill-conceived and destructive logging, road building, and utility right-of-way projects.
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In spring, when 17-year-old John R. Lewis High School student Kadija Ismail, of Springfield, learned she’d been accepted into the Virginia Tech Pathways for Future Engineers program, she wasn’t sure she fit the bill as a future engineer.
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