This summer, Charlottesville marks the 50th anniversary of its Downtown Mal— inviting people from all over the state to celebrate.

“We were all hoping that under a Democratic governor, it would not be a question of whether we would have a retail marketplace, but when we would have a retail marketplace,” Petersburg Senator Lashrecse Aird told Radio IQ Tuesday. “And today’s veto is evident that those expectations were false hope.”

“I’ve already lost a marriage, traveling, for 15 years, trying to feed my family,” said Richmond IBEW 666 member Dorian Hargrave. ‘I’d like to have this economy bolstered and stay like it is, right here in Virginia.”

A team from the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science is in the middle of a three-year study of two of the Chesapeake Bay’s iconic trophy fish-- red drum and striped bass.

Virginia’s largest utility – Dominion Energy – has surprised the state with plans to merge with Florida’s main electric utility. The two companies promise efficiencies that will drive consumer prices down, but some observers are skeptical – urging regulators to turn thumbs down on the deal as Sandy Hausman reports.

“Virginia schools succeed when teachers are supported, when buildings are ready, when every student has access to opportunity, and families are part of the conversation," Gov. Abigail Spanberger said.

Now that the United States Supreme Court has ended the effort to redraw Virginia's congressional map, Democrats and Republicans are refocusing on the existing map.

Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a former assistant principal in Virginia accused of ignoring warnings that a 6-year-old student brought a loaded gun to school that was later used to shoot his first grade teacher.

The combination will create the world’s largest regulated electric utility business, with operations in Virginia, the Carolinas and Florida.

35,007 people from Southwest Virginia received a letter recently, informing them that their medical debt had been erased, after a nonprofit in the New River Valley paid off their bills.