Dillard's work was characterized by spare prose and a deep connection to nature. She is best known for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood, The Maytrees and The Writing Life.

Hampton Roads organizations are raising awareness about recycling cigarette waste.

This week, Dominion Energy announced hundreds of new jobs to sweeten the deal for its proposed merger with Florida-based NextEra.

Researchers at Virginia Tech are testing whether a wearable patch could help prevent opioid overdoses by administering naloxone if a person overdoses.

About 10% of all people are left-handed, which helps to explain why the melody in compositions for the piano is usually written for the right. But a former professor from Sweet Briar College specializes in works composed for the left. He’ll be performing at Virginia Tech, UVA and JMU later this month.

Lawmakers are still trying to draft a compromise bill that will combine elements of the competing proposals that previously passed the House and Senate.

“I’m just grateful that my son had this opportunity to see that he could affect change,” Susan Park said.

Many of the roughly 50 Shenandoah Valley residents demonstrating outside Waynesboro City Council chambers Monday evening had a message for the city’s nearby Northrop Grumman plant: “We’re watching.”

MWR towed the cars as part of Aug. 29 Teddy Swims and Miranda Lambert concert on base.

Two art professors at Virginia Tech have been exploring questions they have about artificial intelligence through a performance piece that will be shown later this week in Blacksburg.