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 ...

The Transco compressor station in Chatham. Photo by Grace Mamon. The natural gas pipeline developer The Williams Companies plans another pipeline expansion in Virginia, this time to run from ...

A plastics recycling startup will invest $4.3 million and create 28 jobs in Pittsylvania County, the governor’s office announced Tuesday. Green Recycle USA LLC will turn industrial plastic waste into ...

At the Bradley Free Clinic, patients fill exam rooms for medical, dental and behavioral health care. For 50 years, this safety-net clinic has served some of the Roanoke region’s most acutely ill and ...

Want more on Virginia’s population trends? We’ve collected all our demographic coverage in one place. We also have a March 26 podcast about migration trends in Virginia. Find it on our podcast page.

The city hall building in Salem. Photo by Samantha Verrelli. On Monday, the Salem City Council will consider a first adoption of the FY26 budget, including considerations of tax rate changes and the ...

The Virginia Supreme Court ruled that Cox Communications cannot use a 2023 law to impose eminent domain on railways’ property while trying to reach the commonwealth’s more remote areas. Photo by ...

On the afternoon of April 7, three people showed up at the Natural Bridge Zoo to conduct a random inspection of the giraffes that the state had seized last year, but which remained at the zoo until ...

Sometimes on winter mornings, Barnie Day would wake up and find a freshly killed deer hanging in his barn in Patrick County. He often had no idea who had left it, but that’s not what mattered. What ...

When the Revolutionary War ended in 1783, a state census revealed that in some parts of Augusta County, slavery was so commonplace that one in three households owned at least one enslaved Black person ...

Two new polls came out Thursday. Both show the same thing: Virginians don’t like President Donald Trump and want Democrat Abigail Spanberger to be their next governor. Rep. Abigail Spanberger. They do ...

Dan Freeman, senior director of trauma programs at Carilion Clinic, stands in a trauma bay in the newly expanded emergency department at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital during a media tour in April ...