For the week ending Saturday, Jan. 4, COVID-19 accounted for 1.6% of all emergency department visits in Virginia, with overall respiratory illness high and trending down compared to previous data. No deaths associated with COVID-19 were reported within that period …

The City of Hampton dedicated a Heritage marker Saturday morning to recognize three Black nurses who, in 1963, risked their careers to challenge segregation at Dixie Hospital in Hampton.

New Year’s Day brought a range of new laws and changes to Virginia, including a rise in the minimum wage, expanded protections against discrimination, harassment and retaliation based on ethnic origin and greater privacy for minors from data collectors. These …

Five members of the white nationalist group Patriot Front settled a civil lawsuit over defacing the Arthur Ashe mural in Richmond’s Battery Park in October 2021.

Richmond Chief of Fire and Emergency Services Melvin Carter announced his retirement Friday, Dec. 27, after nearly four decades of service to the city. Carter was the third African-American chief in the department’s history.

Virginia Humanities is now accepting applications for the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Scholars Fellowship, a program designed to support humanities scholars affiliated with HBCUs.

The Adinkra Alliance Institute recently announced the 2024 recipients of the Adinkra Distinguished Black Achievers Honors, recognizing Black leaders around the country whose significant contributions have positively impacted their communities.

As lawmakers consider Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s proposal to provide vehicle tax relief for Virginians and ultimately eliminate the property tax, policymakers can find comfort after repeals in Rhode Island and Georgia.

The Richmond and Henrico health districts are set to begin COVID-19 testing in 2025 on Thursday, Jan. 8. New data from the Virginia Department of Health on COVID-19’s impact on emergency department visits, respiratory illness levels, or deaths related to …

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Just days before Christmas, two custodians contracted with the City of Richmond delivered a lump of coal to their former employer, along with federal charges alleging they were fired in retaliation for their union activities due to disability discrimination.

Richmond Public Schools held its Holiday Harvest Distribution on Saturday at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, where volunteers assembled meal boxes to support families facing food insecurity during the school division’s winter break.

Democratic Delegate Rae Cousins announced her re-election campaign for the 79th District in Virginia’s House of Delegates last week.

Duron Chavis, executive director of Happily Natural Day, recently announced his resignation from the Maggie Walker Community Land Trust Board of Directors after serving for seven years.

The U.S. Senate has passed Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan’s (VA-04) first standalone bill, H.R. 7385, to rename the Petersburg Post Office as the John Mercer Langston United States Postal Service Building.