Langley Air Force Base’s answer to bald eagles: Rockets and giant nets
At a Virginia Air Force base, a new effort to protect bald eagles — and pilots.
View Article‘A huge gain for the community’: Williamsburg pharmacies among those getting...
Local pharmacies in Williamsburg are getting their first shipments of COVID-19 vaccine soon, after months of back-and-forth with the Virginia Department of Health and extensive preparation.
View ArticleVaccine update: Can supply meet demand in Virginia?
State health department officials say they expect to receive only about 110,000 doses a week for about a month, and a large ramp-up of supplies may not happen until March or April, when other...
View ArticleWilliamsburg, James City teachers get first COVID-19 vaccinations at Colonial...
County administrators and city leaders around the Peninsula issued a statement Friday about the cooperative effort to establish local COVID-19 vaccine clinics that can vaccinate large numbers of people...
View ArticleThe Navy is concentrating its amphibious ships in Hampton Roads — but moving...
The aim is to make maintenance and repair work easier by keeping the ships closer to the shipyards that do the bulk of the work.
View ArticleHe’s a carnival worker and an international gun trafficker. Now he’ll serve 5...
Grelilin Eurinio Santana-Munoz, a carnival worker known as "Vacation," paid straw purchasers to buy Glock 9mm handguns from stores in Virginia and Georgia and then sent them to the Dominion Republic,...
View ArticleHampton VA Medical Center names licensed clinical social worker as new...
Longtime manager will supervise Hampton center and series of outpatient clinics
View Article‘Lines are getting longer:’ N.C. food bank builds new massive cold storage...
The new rooms can store 60 tons of fresh produce and meat for the nonprofit, which serves some of the poorest counties in the state.
View ArticleNorfolk Mayor Kenny Alexander has a new gig: Chancellor of a network of trade...
Kenny Alexander will oversee the campuses of Centura College, Aviation Institute of Maintinence and Tidewater Tech.
View ArticleShellfish harvesting ban extended for portion of the James River until Feb. 3
The lower portion of the James River closed due to a major wastewater line break in Newport News earlier this month.
View ArticleState Sen. Amanda Chase, who defended Capitol rioters, faces censure effort...
Sen. Amanda Chase, a hardcore acolyte of former President Donald Trump, sought to head off a censure resolution Friday by giving a floor speech declaring she was “completely horrified” by the Jan. 6...
View ArticleAs neighbors deal with gunfire noise from Hampton police’s outdoor site,...
Tucked in a residential neighborhood and in earshot of ab early childhood development center and the Y.H. Thomas Community Center, police also are limited to when they can practice.
View ArticlePandemic causes spikes in stress-driven incidents in Newport News, police...
The stress of the COVID-19 pandemic helped cause spikes in drug overdoses, suicides, and felony domestic assaults in Newport News last year, the city’s police chief says.
View ArticleFeb. 19, 2016: Arrest photo of young activist Bernie Sanders emerges from...
A negative of a photo of Bernie Sanders' arrest in August 1963 was found in the Chicago Tribune's archives.
View ArticleGloucester woman missing for 7 weeks found dead
A 29-year-old who disappeared from the Cary Avenue Adult Home in Gloucester seven weeks ago was found dead Friday.
View ArticleVirginia health department tweaks hotline’s Spanish services
VDH mejora los servicios en español y otros servicios de idiomas adicionales en la líneatelefónica directa.
View ArticleGloucester’s Rosenwald school - a story about persistence and purpose
The Woodville Rosenwald Foundation is hosting a firm and panel discussion to share the story about the commitment of Gloucester County's Black community to education.
View ArticleMan, 23, shot and killed in Portsmouth
Police said 23-year-old Vernon Norvel had a gunshot wound to his upper body.
View ArticleNewport News police investigating shooting that left one dead
It is unclear what happened. Police have not released the name of the victim, nor any information about a possible suspect.
View ArticleBird fans cry foul after huge nest destroyed in Virginia Beach
Initially thought to be an eagle's nest, it was actually made by osprey. “And those can be removed,” said Bryan Watts, director of the College of William & Mary’s Center for Conservation Biology.
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