By Maria – Paula The City of Newport News is addressing a national crisis –…
Category: Virginia
Petersburg demolishing blighted hotel, clearing way for redevelopment
By Jonathan Spiers (RBiz) – With a funding assist from the state that helped it…
GRTC awarded $11m for cleaner bus fleet
More environmentally friendly public transit is coming to the streets of Richmond thanks to an…
Virginia is seeing a spike in THC-related poison control calls among toddlers and teens
By Kate Masters (VM) – The director of the University of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Poison…
Va. police conduct standards will soon be enforceable – two years after law passed
RAHUL CHOWDHRY SHARMA (VM) – From 1999 to Feb. 2021, just 81 law enforcement officers…
Virginia’s program to reduce police mental health transports isn’t working
By Kate Masters (VM) – Since 2019, Virginia has spent millions of dollars rolling out…
Virginia’s Black hospital for TB patients finally gets a historical marker
The Piedmont Tuberculosis Sanatorium , about 1918. Courtesy of the University of Virginia. By Emily…
Same-day voter registration is coming to Virginia. Here’s how it’ll work.
BY GRAHAM MOOMAW (VM) – The big change to Virginia’s voting laws in the last…
$58 million grant to improve rail corridor between Richmond and Raleigh
The Virginia Passenger Rail Authority (VPRA) and the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) were…
VSP investigating crash resulting from interstate shooting
On July 6th, 2022 at approximately 11:33 PM, state police responded to a single vehicle…
