
End youth imprisonment now
Last week President Obama put an end to the use of solitary confinement on youth locked up in the federal prison system.

Last week President Obama put an end to the use of solitary confinement on youth locked up in the federal prison system.

The Iowa caucuses are set to begin at 7 p.m. local time Monday. As they do, a winter storm will be barreling down on the Hawkeye State.

The Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center has selected Cornell University President Elizabeth Garrett to receive the University of Virginia’s 2016 Distinguished Alumna Award.

Protests against Monsanto’s Roundup, with its poisonous, weed-killing glyphosate, have spread around the globe.

Flint is among many cities in Michigan, like Detroit, that have lost their luster since the automotive industry slowed down.

Blacksburg Police have announced the arrest of a Virginia Tech student in connection to the case of missing Blacksburg resident Nicole Madison Lovell.

The endocrine system controls the various functions of cells, tissues and organs in our bodies through the secretion of hormones.

Virginia Tech’s Nuclear Science and Engineering Lab and the U.S. Naval Academy’s nuclear engineering program have joined in a research and educational partnership.

A new report by the Sierra Club finds that pollution from two proposed pipelines would almost double the total emissions from existing power plants in Virginia.

Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam released the following statement on the recently announced bipartisan legislation to reduce gun violence.
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