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New grocery store, restaurant coming to Jackson Ward

A small grocery store and a restaurant have signed leases to occupy retail space in the new, 154-unit Jackson Ward apartment complex at 1st and Duval streets early next year, it has been announced.

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Friday Cheers announces 2024 concert series

Friday Cheers, presented by Hardywood Park Craft Brewery, returns May 3 for its 39th season as Richmond’s longest-running concert series and the city’s largest event of its kind on the James River.

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Painter, sculptor Thornton Dial dies

McCALLA, Ala. Self-taught artist Thornton Dial, who transformed discarded junk into sculpture and painted in bright colors and bold lines, has died at his home in Alabama. He was 87.

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VSU may lose $10M to $12M with decision to go virtual

The decision to keep students off campus for the first semester may cost Virginia State University $10 million to $12 million — just one example of the impact COVID-19 is having on higher education.

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VSU and NSU to open football season Sept. 5

Virginia State and Norfolk State universities will open their 2020 football seasons against each other on Sept. 5 at Dick Price Stadium in Norfolk. Kickoff is scheduled for 6 p.m.

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Price of new Wythe High School skyrockets to $140M

The price tag to replace aging George Wythe High School has jumped to $140 million, a 40 percent hike from the previous estimate of $100 million.

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City Council spars over voter advisory referendum on $1.5B Coliseum plan

Richmond residents were lining up Wednesday to speak their minds on Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s $1.5 billion Coliseum replacement and development plan for Downtown at the second of two special City Council meetings in two days.

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City Hall again hit with overtime lawsuit

City Hall has spent more than $12 million since 2012 to settle lawsuits over its failure to pay required overtime to employees ranging from police officers to social workers, sheriff’s deputies and former mayoral bodyguards.

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Shielding from responsibility?

City mum on funds diverted to police

Mayor Levar M. Stoney joined community partners Tuesday to announce the city is all for trying to prevent the killings that leave bodies in the street and families in mourning. However, during his City Hall press conference, the mayor didn’t mention that just a few weeks ago his administration gained approval from

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Youngkins’ announce high school essay contest

Gov. Glenn Youngkin, First Lady Suzanne S. Youngkin and the Virginia Council on Women have announced the 13th Annual Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics and Healthcare (STEAM-H) essay contest. The contest is open to female high school seniors who plan to pursue a STEAM-H career at a community college, four-year college or university, trade or technical school, online or through certificated STEAM-H courses.

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Back-to-school success tips

For thousands of public school students across the region, summer’s almost over. School officially starts Tuesday, Sept. 8.

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Eva Davis Brinkley, Armstrong High guidance director, dies at 91

Eva Davis Brinkley went above and beyond for Richmond students at Armstrong High School.

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Denzel receives top Golden Globe award

Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington joined the ranks of Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro when he was awarded the Golden Globe for lifetime achievement Sunday.

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Chesterfield names new superintendent

Chesterfield County has a new schools superintendent. Dr. Mervin B. Daugherty, superintendent of Red Clay Consolidated School District in Wilmington, Del., will lead Chesterfield County Public Schools, beginning Nov. 1.

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Cityscape: Slices of life and scenes in Richmond

Artist Austin Miles of Petersburg puts the finishing touches last week on this new mural that now decorates Max Market, 1125 Hull St.

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Immigrants, Caucasians, Native Americans and ‘America as we know it’

At one time, this country was the home of those labeled Native Americans. Slowly, then rather viciously, this country became home to invading Europeans, many of them criminals, murderers, thieves, debtors and rapists — the rejects of their various countries and communities. They made Native Americans, and all their various tribes, the enemy.

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Free COVID-19 testing, vaccines

Free community testing for COVID-19 continues.

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Breakdancing an Olympic sport?

Breakdancing, an art form started by African-American teenagers that has spread all over the world, may break into the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris as a new sport.