The Creatures Great & Small Festival, which returns to Scottsville Sunday, puts animal welfare and rescue organizations in the spotlight for fun and fundraising.
- Hawes Spencer
The family of celebrated UVa biology professor Masashi Kawasaki, killed by an errant trucker last year, has settled a wrongful death lawsuit for $7 million.
- Hawes Spencer
Wick McNeely, who helped found Virginia National Bank, brought the Paramount Theater back to life and sat on UVa's Board of Visitors, has declared bankruptcy.
- Jane Sathe
Coming up, "Todd Murphy: Bird Room" opens at Les Yeux du Monde, Botanical Garden of the Piedmont Art Festival remain on view at McGuffey and more.
- BRADLEY FIRCHOW
Abigail Spanberger wants to better coordinate Virginia's emergency and disaster response systems. Coordination presumes something underneath to coordinate.
- Haley Sandlow
More changes are coming to Veritas Vineyard & Winery than were originally announced when private investors acquired the Afton operation in the spring.
- Jane Sathe
Jazz singer Janis Siegel, known for her work with the Manhattan Transfer, is headlining the Lake Anna Jazz Music Festival this weekend.
PVCC's new arts seasons begins this Friday with a screening of "The Adventures of Prince Achmed," the oldest surviving animated feature film.
The 14th annual Cville Sabroso Festival this Saturday is expected to bring in thousands of people for a day of Latin American food, music and dancing.
After yet another ICE operation in Greene County this year, local and federal authorities have grown even quieter about who is being detained and why.
The Virginia Clay Festival is set to run over Saturday and Sunday this weekend bringing dozens of potters, sculptors and jewelers to Stanardsville.
After two years in business, Ethos Wine & Tea has closed in Charlottesville's Starr Hill neighborhood. It may not be the end of the brand, though.
Central Virginia's senior and junior lawmakers are not in lockstep on how to handle the NextEra-Dominion mega-merger. Can the deal actually be stopped?
The Virginia Department of Education has issued $12 million in school security equipment grants to 91 school divisions.
- ANNA BRYSON Richmond Times-Dispatch
The Virginia Department of Education has issued $12 million in school security equipment grants to 91 school divisions.
- DAVE RESS Richmond Times-Dispatch
Florida-based NextEra Energy has updated its proposal to acquire Virginia's Dominion Energy — much to the satisfaction of officials in the Old Dominion.
- Heather Price Ives
Waynesboro man James Dooms is dead after a motorcycle crash on U.S. 33 in Greene County just east of Skyline Drive on Sunday morning.
- SEAN JONES Richmond Times-Dispatch
Kalahari's Spotsylvania County resort, opening Nov. 12, will be Virginia's largest indoor water park, with 900 hotel suites and a 150,000-square-foot convention center.
- Heather Price Ives
Springfield man Charles Lawrence who's been wanted since Sept. 5 after a domestic incident in Orange County was taken into custody after eluding police for days.
- David Velazquez
Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears plans to stop by Charlottesville on her campaign to kill ballot measures supporting gay marriage and abortion access.
- Jane Sathe
Coming up, Willie Nelson & Family at Ting Pavilion, Mumford & Sons at John Paul Jones Arena and more.
- David Velazquez
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett plans to drop by UVa this Thursday to discuss her 2025 memoirs, "Listening to the Law."
- Hawes Spencer
It was a literal common thread: 100 "Donnie Darko" hoodies connected multiple Charlottesville-area crimes.
- JUSTIN FAULCONER Nelson County Times
Firefly Fiber Broadband is celebrating eight years of business and 48,000 connections made in Central Virginia.
- David Velazquez
Charlottesville City Hall is pushing back against claims people were beaten, arrested and even institutionalized as it cleared a homeless encampment earlier this month.
- MICHAEL MARTZ Richmond Times-Dispatch
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger paid tribute on Friday to the Arlington County first responders who were dispatched to the Pentagon on 9/11.

