The addiction and mental health crisis continues to wreak havoc on families in communities across the country. We certainly see it in Virginia, where it impacts more than 150,000 residents and costs ...

Large substations, like this one, are needed in Northern Virginia to meet the energy demands of the data center industry. Photo by Grace Mamon. Northern Virginia is home to 35% of the world’s data ...

Want more news on Virginia’s changing demography? We’ve compiled all our coverage of the state’s demographic trends in one place. President-elect Donald Trump’s new government efficiency co-czars, ...

The former First Baptist Church in Rocky Mount will be the site of the Raising the Shade monument, which is slated to be installed on the property’s front lawn by the end of next year. Photo by ...

The State Capitol. Photo by Bob Brown. For more on the session, check out our new podcast, which debuts with a preview of the General Assembly. Lawmakers will take up thousands of bills during this ...

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Microporous as the anchor tenant for the Berry Hill megasite. Photo by Grace Mamon. After more than a decade of site work, hundreds of millions of dollars in ...

Miracle Hawkinberry gives her daughter Honey Stacy, 14 months, a snack while they take shelter from the heat in a parking area during the Family Agriculture Day at the Grundy Community Center recently ...

Hunger led me to discover a store in Southwest Virginia that is openly selling marijuana, one of perhaps dozens of such operations that are trying to find ways around state laws that allow personal ...

Congress passed a continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown in mid-March, amid a partisan fight over federal spending. That continuing resolution left out tens of millions of dollars in ...

As a Southern farm boy of a certain generation, I grew up with the movie “Smokey and The Bandit” as a defining work of art. Teachers may have tried to direct our attention to the classics, such as ...

Mountain Valley Pipeline-related construction on Bent Mountain in Roanoke County in December 2023. Photo by Megan Schnabel. The Mountain Valley Pipeline’s lead developer said Tuesday it anticipates ...

Students practice their welding skills at Patrick & Henry Community College. Photo by Dean-Paul Stephens. When JD Vance spoke in Radford on Monday, some of his loudest cheers came when he talked about ...