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The 2026 entertainment lineup for the 16th annual Virginia Chili, Blues & Brews Festival features Chickenhead Blues Band, Dara James, Selwyn Birchwood and Albert Cummings.
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Virginia State Police have released the identity of the suspect in a double-murder reported last week on VDOT property used as an equipment staging area near the intersection of Route 1 and Route 288 in Chesterfield County.
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Virginia’s gambling market has grown rapidly since sports betting was legalized in 2020. Tax revenue has flowed into state programs, but residents now face a crowded field of operators with varying terms.
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According to new dashboards launched by the Spanberger administration, the Trump/MAGA cuts to healthcare threaten coverage for 300,000 Virginians who currently receive coverage through Medicaid.
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Virginia’s tidal river fishing forecast highlights strong populations of largemouth bass and blue catfish across the Potomac, Chickahominy, James, Rappahannock and York river systems.
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The Youngkin administration fell behind, big time, on the regulatory oversight of nursing homes, leaving a huge backlog of facilities in need of recertification inspections.
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People look to their local elected leaders to do things: from the granular – traffic signals, leaf pick-up – to the epic – housing for all, redressing systemic racism, “solving” mental health.
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South Carolina, where Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris by 18 points in the 2024 election cycle, which last voted for a Democrat for president way back in 1976, will hold the first Democratic Party presidential primary in the 2028 cycle.
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The number of ED visits to Virginia hospitals by people without health insurance increased 49 percent between 2022 and 2025 – and that number is going to go up with the Trump/MAGA Big Beautiful Bill taking millions off the rolls.
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We all hate getting the tons of spammy telemarketing calls that come in every day. Good news: one of the people responsible for some of them is facing serious prison time.
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