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Inside a 100-year-old former YMCA, researchers from Virginia State University are discovering which techniques for indoor farms work best in an urban environment—and hoping to help reduce the problem of food deserts in American cities.
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Qore Systems LLC will invest $12.8 million to relocate from Arizona and establish its first Virginia operation in Highlands Business Park, owned and operated by Smyth County and Washington County.
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The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that lesbian and gay couples are entitled to equal marriage rights under the U.S. Constitution. The court’s action means that lesbian and gay couples across America will now enjoy the same freedom to marry that Virginia couples have enjoyed since October 2014.
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James Parrish, executive director, Equality Virginia, offered the following comment in response to the June 26 Supreme Court ruling that under the Fourteenth Amendment states are required to issue marriage licenses between two people of the same sex.
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Virginia Tech doctoral student Sanam Aksha – who has spent the past several years studying how governments can better prepare for disasters – learned in late April that an earthquake had leveled his hometown of Tupche in central Nepal.
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The Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce its annual Economic Development Outlook Breakfast at the Holiday Inn Staunton Conference Center on Wednesday.
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Governor Terry McAuliffe announced this week that Monogram Food Solutions, LLC, a Memphis-based manufacturer of value-added processed meats, will invest $7.244 million to establish a warehousing and logistics operation in Henry County.
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Governor Terry McAuliffe this week announced his appointments to the Boards of Visitors at Virginia’s colleges and universities, the State Council for Higher Education for Virginia and the State Board for Community Colleges.
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U.S. Senator Tim Kaine joined a group of more than 30 senators in expressing support for initial steps the agency has taken and urging the agency to issue strong rules to combat the “cascade of devastating financial consequences” that these high-priced loans often have on consumers.
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Scores of Richmond residents converged in Churchill Wednesday to learn about energy efficiency while touring Better Housing Coalition’s Somanath Seniors Apartments and Lofts at Beckstoffer’s, a local EarthCraft™-certified multi-residential property.
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