The 17th Annual Ukrop’s Monument Avenue 10K is this weekend. Even though participants may be running in cold and rainy conditions along a route laden with statues of vanquished icons of the Confederacy, the event typically provides a fun, healthy …

We join the Greater Richmond community in mourning the death of Trooper Chad P. Dermyer of the Virginia State Police. The 37-year-old husband and father of two was fatally shot last week during a training exercise at the busy Greyhound …

When voters across the nation head to the polls in November to cast ballots, it will be the first presidential election in 50 years without the full protection of the federal Voting Rights Act. In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court …

We commend Starbucks, the high-priced, addictive java joint, for listening to the suggestions of its employees and customers and coming up with a way to help the hungry while reducing food waste.

We followed with great interest President Obama’s trip this week to Cuba, scrutinizing closely his reception not only by the Cuban people, but by that nation’s leaders.

President Obama has seen this horror movie before. His political opponents not only distorted his positions when he first ran for president, but deliberately lied about his place of birth, asserting that because he — according to their fiction — …

For those who are watching the presidential nominating contest like a horse race, here are the latest results since Super Tuesday and Virginia’s participation:

The partisan turmoil that has paralyzed Washington for the last few years apparently is contagious. And like a plague, it spread to Virginia, where the General Assembly was stricken with an illness threatening the progress of the Commonwealth.

Before the thrill of the annual CIAA Tournament wears off, we offer our hearty congratulations to the Lady Panthers of Virginia Union University and the Virginia State University Trojans men’s basketball team for such exciting CIAA championship wins last Saturday …

Super Tuesday is over. And for fans of Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, it was a great night, with multistate victories for both candidates ranging from Massachusetts to Georgia to Arkansas.

Tuesday, March 1, is a red-letter day in Virginia. It is the day that voters across the Commonwealth can go to the polls and select their preference for a Democratic or Republican nominee for president.

It starts small. But changing the facts to rewrite history is an insidious problem, one that has long-plagued this nation and detrimentally impacted the African-American community. Rewriting history can steal credit from those to whom credit is due. It can …

Sometimes the truth is ugly. And sometimes, the truth hurts. The greater an ugly truth, the more it hurts.

We’ve just about had our fill of uninformed critiques from the peanut gallery about Beyonce’s halftime performance at the Super Bowl last Sunday. Everyone from former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to journalists and spectators around the world have …

The painful truth about America has emerged with the poisoned water in Flint, Mich. Top state and federal officials, including Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and regional Environmental Protection Agency officials, knew more than a year ago that residents of Flint …