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National Invasive Species Awareness Week offers a series of events and webinars to raise awareness and identify solutions to invasive species issues at local, state, tribal, regional, international and national scales.
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Rep. Don Beyer voted Tuesday for the Natural Resources Management Act, a bipartisan conservation bill including a permanent reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund for which he long advocated.
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The Virginia Department of Health announced today that a portion of the James River is closed to shellfish harvesting due to significant river flooding.
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The State Governing Board of Virginia Organizing is calling on Gov. Ralph Northam, Attorney General Mark Herring and State Sen. Tommy Norment to make amends for their past racist actions.
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The Fourth Circuit declined today to reconsider its December ruling that the U.S. Forest Service lacked authority to authorize the Atlantic Coast Pipeline from crossing the Appalachian Trail.
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Traveling for business isn’t an unusual thing to do, and there are many reasons as to why you might choose to travel for business such as securing a client you’ve had your eye on, or even expanding your business and opening up shop in New York, where you can guarantee business will boom.
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For the past few decades, the online gambling world has been on the rise. There are land-based gambling places like casinos that have created online sites and versions and they are exclusively online industries that have been established, which has hosted a lot of online casinos.
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The Regulatory Reform Order or the Fire Safety Order of 2005 made it a requirement that all of the employees in a business or work environment need to have at least basic fire warden training.
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Senate Democrats applaud the passage of a bipartisan budget that includes a 5% teacher salary increase, 1% state employee pay increase, $94 million for higher education, $194 million for K-12 public education, $7 million for the Affordable Housing Trust Fund and $1.3 billion deposited into Virginia’s Rainy Day and Cash Reserve funds.
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Biological invasions by non-native organisms are one of the most important aspects of rapid global change, costing the global economy greater than $1 trillion annually. Globally, biological invasions also decimate local flora and fauna, contribute to disease outbreaks and agricultural loss, and threaten human health.
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