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- ETHAN HUNT The Roanoke Times
Despite Trump administration cuts to colleges nationwide, Virginia Tech says it's well positioned to seek more Department of Defense research funding.
- DAILY PROGRESS STAFF
Five people have been displaced after a Wednesday morning house fire in southern Albemarle County. An investigation into its cause is underway.
- MARLENE A. CONDON
Every yard should contain a mix of native and “invasive” plants to help our wildlife to survive.
- JORGEN VIK
If anyone tells you what’s going to happen in the future, they’re either trying to convince you to buy something or they just don’t know what they don’t know.
- DAILY PROGRESS STAFF
Coming up, Charlottesville Camera Club member photographs on view at Northside Library, Nan Rockwell's pots-for-donations charity drive and more.
- BONNIE ZARE and JESSICA LONG
Leaving MAGA does not mean loving your country any less; it means choosing to help build a nation that turns change into opportunity rather than fear.
- MICHAEL MARTZ Richmond Times-Dispatch
Virginia's budget deal finalized last week means Stack Infrastructure's massive $73 billion data center campus in Pittsylvania County can move forward.
Adam Spanberger, husband to Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, has been appointed to the board of the Virginia Science Museum — by his wife.
A new state budget includes $150 million to help Virginians afford monthly premiums for health insurance to partly offset the loss of federal dollars.
The Wintergreen Music Festival this year is saving Saturdays for musical variety. Listeners can discover jazz, gospel and bluegrass between the classical music concerts.
Washington, D.C., is no longer the city of headlines and horror stories. It is safe again, clean again and worthy again of the nation it represents.
15 people were killed in car crashes over the Fourth of July weekend, between July 2 and July 5, according to state troopers.
Despite pledges to end the politicization of federal law enforcement, the Trump administration has advanced the president’s personal and political grievances.
Michie Tavern has been sold. And notably, it has not been sold to the foundation that owns and operates its next-door neighbor Monticello.
- Eli Lerdau
Michie Tavern has been sold. And notably, it has not been sold to the foundation that owns and operates its next-door neighbor Monticello.
- NORI LEYBENGRUB The Virginian-Pilot
Jeffrey Leffel has been sentenced to 18 months behind bars after he was caught filming women in the bathroom at his workplace, Sentara in Chesapeake.
- JASON DUNOVANT The Roanoke Times
What is usually one of the busiest weekends of the summer for Smith Mountain Lake was ultimately uneventful due to scorching heat and drought.
- DAVE RESS and MICHAEL MARTZ Richmond Times-Dispatch
Virginia's new budget calls for the “temporary assignment or use of ABC special agents” to oversee the state's new, legal cannabis market. Those agents aren't happy.
- Jane Sathe
Big Mama, a Belgian draft horse standing 19.3 hands high, was recently saved from slaughter by Keswick-based nonprofit Colby's Crew Rescue.
- DAILY PROGRESS STAFF
Coming up, the Charlottesville Band presents patriotic music at Ting Pavilion, Wintergreen Music Festival offers a musical hike and more.
- Heather Price Ives
Three Virginia counties have allocated a combined three quarters of a million dollars to fight Dominion Energy's Valley Link transmission line. But will it work?
- Hawes Spencer
A three-judge panel in Charlottesville decided Monday that the individual lawsuits against Virginia's new assault weapons ban will not be combined into a single case.
- David Velazquez
It's happened: Virginia wines have beat their French counterparts in an official blind tasting.
- DAILY PROGRESS STAFF
The Montpelier Foundation, which operates the historic home of Founding Father James Madison, has named a new CEO. Will she be able to bring stability to the estate?
- ERIC KOLENICH Richmond Times-Dispatch
Steven DeLuca, who leads government relations at Capitol One, has been named rector of the Virginia Commonwealth University Board of Visitors.
- DAVE RESS Richmond Times-Dispatch
New ratepayer rebates in Virginia won't threaten funds earmarked for flood prevention and energy efficiency, says Gov. Abigail Spanberger.

