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  • VMI’s board of visitors selects new leadership... A graduate of UVa’s class of 2019 is found dead on Grounds from a self-inflicted wound... Governor Youngkin again vetoes abortion-related legislation....
  • Cut fiber lines in North Carolina caused this week’s outage in the Charlottesville area… Virginia's unemployment rate rises… A hospital advocate says the Republican spending bill could hit Virginia’s hospitals hard….
  • Charlottesville becomes just the third city in Virginia to allow public school employees to unionize… One new bill will provide more training for teachers on recognizing and addressing signs of childhood trauma… But Virginia’s lax campaign finance system will remain mostly unchanged for another year….
  • A suspect is in custody after a Wintergreen police officer is fatally shot in a struggle… Some Republican candidates for seats in the General Assembly continue to push former President Trump's lies about a rigged 2020 election… We explore what Afton is doing with its COVID relief money….
  • Two people are dead after a shooting in Richmond… Virginia’s Air Pollution Control Board votes on whether or not to stay with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Iniative… Now that the debt ceiling deal has given a green light to the Mountain Valley Pipeline, opponents consider next steps….
  • Drug-related deaths for Virginia’s seniors nearly doubled in the years leading up to the pandemic… A bill making its way through Congress would allow alcohol to be shipped through the mail in states where it is legal… Why are teachers in Virginia leaving the job in droves?
  • Now that the primaries are over, the major party candidates look ahead to November… Virginia, where abortion is still legal, sees an uptick in patients as border states restrict the procedure… A Dominion Energy pilot program encourages customers to shift electricity usage to off-peak hours….
  • Virginia’s primaries are open to all voters, but does that mean that partisans make mischief at the ballot box?... How does the Supreme Court’s reinforcement of the Indian Child Welfare Act affect tribes in Virginia?... Jeff Schapiro joins us to discuss results from Tuesday’s primaries….
  • No surprise, Biden and Trump romp to primary victory in Virginia on Super Tuesday… Liberty University receives a record $14 million fine for violations of federal law on campus safety… The northern Shenandoah Valley sees a spike in overdose deaths… An update on the General Assembly just days before the session ends….
  • UVa calls in state police to forcibly remove anti-war protesters from Grounds… Can Virginia increase education funding by $1 billion without raising taxes?... As weather-related power outages across Virginia increase, we explore some of the changes needed to protect the power grid….
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