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The top stories for February 17, 2026, including the General Assembly working to limit the role of immigration authorities, and an organ shop in Staunton bids farewell to its latest work.

The top stories for February 18, 2026, including efforts in the General Assembly to addressing housing concerns, and Roanoke's Jefferson Center is giving teens hands-on practice in music production.

The top stories for February 20, 2026, including the latest on the Virginia General Assembly, AI Legislation, retail weed, and tiny cargo in Roanoke.

Powhatan's Mantle is considered a sacred artifact by Tribes in Virginia. So, how did it end up in a British museum?

There's a place along the Rappahannock River in eastern Virginia, not far from the Chesapeake Bay, where the Rappahannock Tribe once lived along the copper-white cliffs that rise vertically from the river. The tribe has a deep connection to this place, now known as Fones Cliffs. Rappahannock Chief Anne Richardson and a team of archaeologists are bringing history to the surface, but it's a race against time, development and climate change.Narrated by Steven Nelson, a citizen of the Rappahannock Tribe.This episode was produced with support from Virginia Humanities.

Calvin and Mac Custalow take their niece, Dawn Custalow, fishing on the Mattaponi River at their reservation. The traditional Easter Sunday service breakfast of shad and shad roe now relies on other fish as the American shad continues to puzzle scientists as to what is causing its decline.

The new season of Tribal Truths starts May 18th.

The Nansemond Indian Nation has a deep connection to the Great Dismal Swamp. Oral histories date back to the late 1800s but then disappear from colonial pressures to assimilate. Still, tribal members who grew up by the Swamp maintain ancestral hunting and trapping traditions. But there is someone who has discovered ancient Indigenous artifacts in the Great Dismal Swamp, some dating back 8,000 years.

This is a complicated story of a history of white supremacy that tried to erase Indigenuity in Amherst County and how that carries forward today as Tribes in Virginia are left out of the permitting and decision process for development and other land disturbing uses throughout the state that affect ancestral lands and remains.This episode was made possible by a grant from Virginia Humanities.And a content warning: There are stories of trauma and racial slurs in this episode.

Deborah Wilkinson explains the legend behind the corn husk doll and how to make one.