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AP Photo/Matt Rourke/APNew guidance by the CDC no longer recommends that people exposed to COVID-19 quarantine at home, as long as they are asymptomatic and test negative. Public schools in Virginia and universities have recently released their own recommendations for students and teachers; they too are relaxing several precautions. -
VPAP/Police are hoping the public will provide more than just information to help solve a Centerville cold case from the 90’s. And, Stafford County school division leaders are apologizing for holding an outdoor event in weather that left many people struggling in the heat.Those have been among the most read stories over the past week at the Virginia Public Access Project's Va. News link.
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Five years after neo-Nazis and other white supremacists rallied in Charlottesville, the city is still reflecting on what happened. Several residents told their stories and shared their conclusions with Radio IQ’s Sandy Hausman. -
Many Republicans are encouraging Glenn Youngkin to run for president, but he's not the first Virginia governor to consider a campaign for the White House.Jeff Schapiro of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and Michael Pope take a look at governor's who have considered hitting the campaign trail for national office.
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Former Rocky Mount Police Sgt. Thomas Robertson didn’t speak in court before a federal judge sentenced him to seven years and three months in prison.
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The Annie E Casey foundation says 11% of children in Virginia – ages three to 17 – are suffering from anxiety or depression. That’s reported by their parents.
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Until last summer, nearly 5 million Virginians lacked dental insurance. Expansions to Medicaid in the past year have helped, there’s still a shortage of dentists in parts of the Commonwealth who are willing to accept low-income patients.
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As Charlottesville observes the fifth anniversary of Unite the Right, a photographer who documented the Summer of Hate five years ago presents a show in the trees along the city’s downtown mall. Rather than focus on right wing extremists, it features those who stood up to them.
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Last month, one of Virginia’s largest producers of flour and cornmeal announced they would be closing their business. Big Spring Mill has been in operation along the Roanoke River between Christiansburg and Roanoke since 1850. Meanwhile, another mill in nearby Floyd County is stepping up its production.
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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has awarded a more than $1.4 million dollar grant to bolster a peer recovery network in the Roanoke Valley.
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Kim and Phillip Zettel have always loved animals. They fostered more than 60 of them last year alone, so when it was time to retire they naturally thought of pets.
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State regulators have now approved plans for the largest offshore wind farm in the nation. Already, Dominion Energy has completed testing of two test turbines off the coast of Virginia Beach.
