Two years after opening as a massive indoor entertainment facility, The Park RVA is expanding outdoors; A local developer’s assemblage of derelict buildings in the Museum District may finally see the wrecking ball before year’s end; Restaurateurs Jeremy and Sarah Chapman are preparing to open Steampunk Pizza at 10396 Leadbetter Road in Ashland; The regional arm of the Girl Scouts has secured a former bank branch in Henrico for its new local headquarters; and a national thrift store chain is expanding its local presence with its first spot in the city limits.

What difference will that make come January?

The state senator was also the first Indian-American and Hindu elected to the General Assembly

The project is expected to cost $1.4 billion over the next few years.

A collaboration between government agencies and local craftspeople is seeking to change that divert felled trees from landfills.

VCU Health closed on a nearly $10 million purchase of the former Pet Dairy industrial property next door to its planned Athletic Village, and the transformation of a former Museum District prep school into apartments is nearing completion.

93% of voters supported the measure.

Plus: A former Virginia delegate offers some analysis of Tuesday's outcomes.

As of 1:45 a.m., some races had yet to be called in Virginia.

Polls are open starting at 6 a.m., and will be open until 7 p.m.

The governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and several GOP candidates spoke at the event.

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Thalhimer Realty Partners is now the sole lead developer in the Diamond District redevelopment; Dickie's Seafood is closing down and looking to sell its Northside facility; and Shake Shack is coming to Short Pump.

Schools like VMI, UVA and William & Mary aren’t seeing a big shift in the percentage of legacy students who’ve enrolled this fall.

This means the state can keep 1,600 people off the voter rolls who were removed in a process put in place by Gov. Glenn Youngkin.

Virginia is home to the world’s largest data center market.

Council President Kristen Nye told VPM News the special meeting was canceled due to members’ availability.

Federal and state governments have a lot of power to make climate-related laws and regulations – but that doesn’t mean Richmond’s hands are tied.

With a new Leonard at the till, Tom Leonard’s Farmer’s Market is headed for growth mode; The city-owned Intermediate Terminal Warehouse is being primed for new life; Virginia Union University released what it says is its final plan for hundreds of new apartments that now calls for preserving the entire century-old structure that once housed the first black hospital in the city; and a Northern Virginia developer’s plan to build a data center complex on the Hanover-Ashland line has achieved the first of two needed cross-jurisdictional milestones.

Lawyers for the Department of Justice and civic groups faced off with Virginia’s attorneys Thursday in Federal Court.

DNA testing is being expedited in all three.

The Richmond City Council candidate listed it in his campaign paperwork.

VPM News was unable to verify the Richmond 6th Council District candidate’s law license.

Today's episode features a breaking news update about Richmond campaign finance.

Weeks after Richmond’s new baseball stadium scored its naming rights deal, the city’s new riverfront amphitheater has landed a title sponsor of its own; It’s shaping up to be a busy fall for EAT Restaurant Partners; and the former Extreme Pizza storefront near VCU has been snapped up.