While its water crisis continued, students in Mississippi’s capital returned to class for the first time in a week Tuesday with assurances that the toilets and sinks in their buildings would finally work.

One topic is conspicuously absent from the current tour of Virginia’s historic governor’s mansion — slavery.

Free community testing for COVID-19 continues.

World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War veterans in the Richmond area are being sought for a free trip to visit the war memorials of Washington, D.C., courtesy of Old Dominion Honor Flight.

When lights and sirens are activated, drivers of fire trucks and ambulances in Chesterfield and Henrico counties have equipment that can turn traffic lights from red to green as they respond to emergencies. The bottom line: Safer and smoother travel …

Inmates being released from the Richmond City Justice Center will leave with free health insurance, Sheriff Antionette V. Irving announced Wednesday.

Reporter Sierra Jenkins, who was shot and killed in March while leaving a Norfolk pizza restaurant, will live on in a college scholarship for future journalists.

Ranked-choice voting — aimed at ensuring that election winners have majority support — has been booted from Richmond.

Internationally known poet Nikki Giovanni retired Sept. 1 as an English professor at Virginia Tech University, bringing an end to a celebrated career at the university that spanned more than 30 years and earned her accolades inside and outside the …

Postponed.

Aaron J. Hart will join Virginia Commonwealth University as its next vice president for student affairs, beginning Oct. 25.

“The Birth of a Planet,” a 30-minute documentary film about post-Civil War era “Richmond Planet” newspaper editor John Mitchell, will launch the three-day, 7th An- nual Afrikana Independent Film Festival at 7 p.m. Sept. 15 at The Black History Museum …

Would Richmond be better off returning to a City Council-manager form of government? Or would the city operate better if the elected mayor were a member of the council as is the case in Norfolk? Should members of the governing …

Steven Bernard Nesmith is returning to public housing more than 40 years after leaving the Philadelphia projects where he grew up.

Four years ago, Georgia Democrats had a contested primary for governor because the party’s old guard didn’t believe in Stacey Abrams. She routed their alternative and, in a close general election loss, established herself as de facto party boss in …