Virginia has OK'd Dominion Energy's plans to construct transmission lines and substation to feed drugmaker Eli Lilly's new project in Goochland County.
- Jane Sathe
The Night Out at Charlottesville's Wool Factory is raising funds for mental health and healing but organized by folks who know fundraisers can be "so boring."
- Heather Price Ives
After more than 20 years working in Greene County schools, Superintendent Andrea Whitmarsh is preparing to retire April 1 of next year.
- Jane Sathe
More than 200 people gathered at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville Saturday to climb 110 stories' worth of stairs to honor the firefighters killed on 9/11.
- Cal Tobias
Over two days, Charlottesville honored the New York City firefighters and other first responders who were on the scene 25 years prior when the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in New York and a corner of the Pentagon in Northern Virginia were destroyed by airliners hijacked by Islamist terrorists.Â
- DAVE RESS Richmond Times-Dispatch
Virginia officials are once again debating closing its only psychiatric hospital for children and teenagers, the Commonwealth Center in Staunton.Â
- Allison Brophy Champion
Independent Alaha Ahrar is running for Virginia's 7th District seat. She is going up against Democrat Eugene Vindman and Republican Doug Ollivant.
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Diesel prices hit a record high in Virginia this week, as the standoff between the U.S. and Iran drove crude oil above $100 a barrel.
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library belongs to a large family of groups supporting child literacy. And they all need our support.
Coming up, Splash Bash Swim Meet benefits Benjamin Hair Swim for Life Foundation, Charlottesville's spray grounds remain open through Sept. 20 and more.
Gordonsville has lifted a boil-water advisory that was instituted earlier this week after a main broke at the town's waterworks.Â
For the second time in a month, scammers are calling Orange County residents, impersonating real deputies and demanding money to avoid arrest.
- Heather Price Ives
For the second time in a month, scammers are calling Orange County residents, impersonating real deputies and demanding money to avoid arrest.
- DAVE RESS Richmond Times-Dispatch
In a push to crack down on benefit theft, SNAP cardholders in Virginia will be issued new cards with chip and tap technology.
- JEFF BENNETT
Perhaps this is what the 25th anniversary of 9/11 should ask us to remember, not only where we were when the planes struck, but who we were before they did.
- Cal Tobias
Hanging in the lobby of Charlottesville's Fire Station 10 is a 17-foot-long, 4,000-pound steel beam that once supported the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
- David Velazquez
Police officers from across Virginia participated in America's 9/11 Ride this year, a 1,000-mile journey by motorcycle to the sites of the attacks.
- Jane Sathe
25 student-made films — documentaries, cartoons and more — will be screened at this weekend's Youth Film Festival in Charlottesville.
- Jane Sathe
Students in Louisa County and Waynesboro too young to remember 9/11 are still finding ways to honor first responders on its 25th anniversary.
- Heather Price Ives
The Orange County Sheriff's Office said it had a "busy" Labor Day weekend, reporting six arrests over the holiday.
- DAVE RESS Richmond Times-Dispatch
The Virginia State Corporation Commission will hold two public hearings at sites to be determined to hear comments on NextEra Energy’s proposed takeover of Dominion Energy.
- ANNA BRYSON Richmond Times-Dispatch
Virginia has made its School Construction and Modernization Commission a permanent fixture of the state legislature.
- CULPEPER STAR-EXPONENT STAFF
A woman is severely injured and a man is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a domestic dipsute in a Main Street hair salon in Culpeper.
- Jane Sathe
The organizers of the Cville VegFest want you to know "vegan food is not what it was 10 years ago." Crunchwrap and Big Mac alternatives are on the menu this year.

