How can you tell it’s October in Richmond? Even without a calendar or a smartphone, a few signs stand out.

Look out, my fellow tenacious reporters and grizzled editors — we think there may be a person on council that’s after all of our hearts.

When we look back on 2025, once we process the general upheaval of governmental norms and the fractured political discourse, we might ask ourselves a question: What was up with all those vape and smoke shops?

One advantage of spreading the voting process over several weeks, rather than cramming all the tabulation into a single day, is that it allows time to catch and correct mistakes on the ballots.

When it comes to gambling in Virginia, it seems the people behind the machines are always one step ahead of elected officials.

In the years after a devastating terror attack killed 2,977 Americans on Sept. 11, 2001, in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania, annual remembrances and memorials sprang up that kept the tragedy and trauma front of mind for at least a …

A few weeks ago, when Gov. Glenn Youngkin threatened to withdraw state funding from Richmond over unpaid restitution to Marvin Grimm, a man wrongly convicted in 1975, questions piled up.

There’s a belief that people of a certain stature move on from this mortal plane in groups of 3.

When the National Newspaper Association announced a boycott of national retailer Target after the company ended its DEI programs in January, some people wondered if it would work — and if finding another place to shop was worth the effort …

Once again, Virginia State University was left hanging by a politician during an election season.

You may be aware that time is running out to share your opinion on what should be done with the statues of Confederate leaders that once stood on Monument Avenue and elsewhere in the city.

It’s been a few weeks since we mourned the loss of America’s big brother, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who portrayed “Theo” Huxtable on NBC’s “The Cosby Show.”

This school year will mark the first time Richmond Public Schools implements a “staggered” start to the school year.

Richmond’s theater community lost one of its own last week in a tragic act of gun violence.

Several years ago, we witnessed a personal racial reckoning by our governor, Ralph Northam, who, after remembering the time he wore blackface as part of a Michael Jackson costume, came to understand how wrong that was.