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Global climate change and the aftermath of the fast-fashion boom have left many concerned consumers looking for environmentally friendly alternatives for traditional fabrics, especially leather.
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Striped bass can’t get a break, it seems. With their East Coast population in decline from overfishing, the migratory species had mixed success reproducing in the Chesapeake Bay this year, surveys show.
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The Virginia Department of Health COVID-19 data website now includes a dashboard detailing COVID-19 cases in K-12 schools in the Commonwealth.
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Former U.S. Sen. John Warner announced this week his endorsement for Amendment 1, which would amend the Virginia Constitution to establish a nonpartisan redistricting commission.
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Elizabeth Kolbert, a staff writer for The New Yorker, will give a virtual lecture on Thursday, Oct. 29 at 5 p.m. as part of Washington and Lee University’s Mudd Center for Ethics series on Global Ethics in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities.
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Virginia Commonwealth University’s research continues to grow, posting an institutional record of $335 million in sponsored funding in fiscal year 2020, an 8 percent increase over the previous year.
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Over the past decade, distance learning has grown in popularity and is touted as a flexible way for students to conveniently access quality instruction. More and more learners are choosing online education, with data showing enrollment to be at six million in the United States.
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Staunton City Schools is partnering with Shenandoah Green in an effort to plant thousands of trees in Staunton over the next year.
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Forty-five percent of the child-care programs in business in Virginia at the start of 2020 closed their doors at the beginning of the stay-at-home period in mid-March.
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For garden plants to thrive, they require some strategic pruning from an astute gardener as they grow. If the garden is allowed to grow at will without any care, the results likely won’t be good.
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