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The House voted 247-178 on Wednesday to pass the Protecting Older Workers from Discrimination Act of 2021, which restores critical protections in the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and makes it easier for employees to prove when they are a victim of age discrimination in the workplace.
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U.S. life expectancy decreased by 1.87 years between 2018 and 2020, a drop not seen since World War II, according to new research from Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Colorado Boulder and the Urban Institute.
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The Virginia DEQ has meet or exceeded EPA expectations and requirements for the majority of its compliance and enforcement programs.
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If there is an absolute maxim by which the American government seems to operate, it is that the taxpayer always gets ripped off.
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Massanutten Resort is touting its summer offerings, including a variety of new activities, the official launch of its expanded Outdoor WaterPark and the opening of its new wellness store, Balanced Roots.
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Pamplin Historical Park & The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier welcomes Park Ranger and historian Zachary Pittard on July 1 at 7 p.m. to the Petersburg Civil War Roundtable.
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Caroline Bruton and Kayla Shaller, eighth-graders from William Monroe Middle School in Greene County, placed first in the Junior Group Documentary category of the National History Day contest with their film, “Communicating Through Cell Walls: The Secret Correspondence of American POWs in Vietnam.”
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Virginia swimming head coach Todd DeSorbo has been named an assistant coach for the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games.
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Over the past several years, Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU has seen an increase in the number of children coming into the hospital with gunshot wounds because guns were not stored properly.
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When asked a couple of weeks ago to reveal his summer plans, Francesco Ferretti divulged that he intended to spend nearly three weeks on the Mediterranean Sea.
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