Radford University is performing a rock-music and modern dance rendition of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the album.

In Virginia Beach, there's now reason for some people to be happy when they see a drone hovering above their home. And cutting wood on federal land has brought prison time for a man in the New River Valley.Those have been among the most read stories over the past week at the Virginia Public Access Project's Va. News link.

Last week the world’s leading climate scientists released another grim report: climate change is worsening. In the face of this uncertain future, Virginia ski resorts are working hard to still provide snow in varying conditions.

Toxic chemicals used to fight fires and found in a wide range of household and industrial goods for decades have ended up in drinking water across the state. Virginia health and environmental agencies have only begun to measure the scope of the problem. How worried should we be?

Lawmakers are currently meeting in secret to craft a budget that'll need to identify $180 million to fix a math error for funding school divisions, and the federal government is threatening sanctions for failing to provide services to students with disabilities. And then there are those standards for history and social sciences.

Virginia Tech and Roanoke College are announcing a partnership that gives Roanoke College students access to graduate level computer science courses. The new partnership will allow Roanoke College students to take courses at Virginia Tech’s Innovation Campus in Northern Virginia after they graduate.

There’s been a big shakeup at the Department of Education while the governor has a big weekend ahead.Jeff Schapiro, political columnist at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and Michael Pope recap the week in politics and state government.

Election officials across Virginia say they are trying to do the best they can in very difficult circumstances. And some of them are resigning.

Since Virginia made cannabis legal, emergency rooms have been treating patients who ate candies or snacks containing THC – the component of the hemp plant that gets people high. In response, lawmakers voted to limit the amount of THC in those edibles to two milligrams per package, and the governor is deciding whether to sign it into law. Small businesses that make or sell hemp products like CBD say they can’t comply, and farmers growing hemp are also worried. Now, parents of sick children are joining the chorus of protest.

When representatives from around the world met in Paris eight years ago, 195 of them agreed to changes that would limit global warming by the end of this century. At the University of Virginia, economists and engineers began running models and crunching numbers to see how we might reach that goal.