
Harrisonburg introduces new conservation assistance program
A new program aimed at improving water quality across Harrisonburg is now available.

A new program aimed at improving water quality across Harrisonburg is now available.

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality has issued permits for the construction and operation of three new solar projects in Halifax and Orange counties.

UVA Basketball coach Tony Bennett talked with the media Wednesday, and no, it wasn’t what the message boards feared, about him leaving for some supposedly greener pasture or anything.

Honeybees are invaluable to the health of the U.S. agricultural economy as they enable the production of 90 commercially grown crops in the nation.

The Department of Game and Inland Fisheries announced a harvest of 17,929 turkeys during the 2019 spring gobbler season. The 2019 harvest was 11% higher than last year’s harvest.

Cannabis has become a buzzword over the past few years, thanks to the non-stop increase in proponents that push for its legalization. It’s important to distinguish cannabidiol (CBD) from tetrahydrocannbinol (THC).

Gov. Ralph Northam is recommending more than $4.9 million in Appalachian Regional Commission grants for 20 projects in the Appalachian Region, which encompasses 25 counties and eight independent cities in Southwest Virginia.

Brainchild of Harvard biochemist Daniel Nocera, the “bionic leaf” is a small man-made solar collector that takes sunlight and water and turns it into any of a variety of usable fuels or fertilizers.

On the farm of the future, drones will fly over forests and crops to communicate with robots embedded in harvesting equipment on the ground.

The Charlottesville Reading Series will host a fiction reading and musical performance on Friday, June 21, from 7-8 p.m. at New Dominion Bookshop in Charlottesville.
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