Rezoning plans for Richmond Public Schools are now in the city School Board’s court.

Small companies that are largely African-American-owned are fighting against an effort that they claim will put them out of business by stopping them from providing mental health and substance abuse services to Medicaid patients.

“I feel like I just won the lottery.” So said Judy Dinsmore after getting a refund check last week from City Hall totaling $2,898.13.

City Hall’s new interim director of human resources has been hired at a salary far above that paid to the most recent director or interim director, Mayor Levar M. Stoney confirmed.

A new weeklong program to train up to 20 people ages 18 to 24 to install solar panels is being initiated through the City of Richmond Office of Community Wealth Building’s workforce training program.

Richmond is to gain 150 new jobs and an enlarged role as a hub of consumer product research and development for a joint venture of two pharmaceutical giants, GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer.

A powerful Republican senator is holding up millions of dollars in federal aid to historically black colleges and universities in Virginia and elsewhere and to other minority-serving institutions.

Katherine Johnson of New- port News, one of the African-American women whose groundbreaking NASA work received global attention in the best-selling book and blockbuster movie, “Hidden Figures,” will receive a Congressional Gold Medal thanks to a bipartisan bill passed by …

Stephanie A. Lynch is the new 5th District representative on Richmond City Council.

For the first time in 24 years, Virginia voters handed Democrats control of both houses of the General Assembly in Tuesday’s election.

Robert N. Barnette Jr., who has led the Virginia State Conference NAACP since August when the previous presi- dent was removed, will hold the top post in the civil rights organization for the next two years after emerging victorious in …

Will the next speaker of the House of Delegates be the first woman or the first African-American to hold the post in Virginia history?

The Henrico School Board is set to welcome its first female African-American member.

Henrico voters made history Tuesday by electing Alisa A. Gregory as the county’s new sheriff.

Incumbents won the day Tuesday, with all five members of the Henrico County Board of Supervisors winning re-election.