11/28/23 - The Richmond City School Board approved a $30 million bid to rebuild William Fox Elementary School; GRTC asks riders to weigh in on their 10-year strategic plan; Respiratory virus season arrives in Virginia; and other stories

Hanover voters struck down a referendum to elect the county’s school board on Election Day, paving the way for the board to uphold its more divisive policies; The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles is pausing work zones and lifting lane closures in the Commonwealth for Thanksgiving holiday travel; Firefighters working to contain the Matts Creek Wildfire in Bedford County got some help from Mother Nature on Tuesday.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin will present his new budget on Dec. 20.

Democrats in Virginia’s General Assembly are submitting key legislation ahead of the 20-24 session; Virginia State University will host one of the 20-24 Presidential Debates next fall; Relatively few children who enter Virginia’s foster care system end up being placed with relatives compared to other states.

Southside Richmond residents have been vocal about what they need to make their neighborhoods safer, healthier and more liveable.

VCU Health’s costly exit from an ill-fated downtown development project is set to get a closer look from officials on both the state and federal level; The disclosure this spring that VCU Health System had to pay $73 million to back out of a costly downtown development project revealed another financial detail that has kept some observers scratching their heads; Kinsale Capital Group is planning more than just an office renovation on the land it owns near Willow Lawn; and another Richmond brewery is closing its doors.

11/17/23 - Northrup Grumman bringing 331 new jobs to Waynesboro; Henrico County's annual State of the County address; More FBI HQ drama; and other stories

A bipartisan group of 11 Virginia lawmakers sent a letter Wednesday to the U.S. Investigator General to request an investigation into the site-selection process of the new FBI headquarters; The Hanover County school board approved a number of policy revisions, aligning the school system with the Virginia Department of Education’s trans Model Policies; The Virginia Board of Education OK’d two new lab schools on Wednesday.

The Public Utilities and Services Commission's first report is due Halloween 2024.

Republicans in the House of Delegates have elected Todd Gilbert as house minority leader after Tuesday’s election results gave Democrats control; Virginia Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger says she is running for governor in 2025 - instead of seeking reelection next year; Richmond City Councilor Mike Jones announced last week that he’s resigning at the end of December to represent Southside as a Virginia state delegate.

11/13/23 - The latest Virginia election updates; Two planned emergency housing shelters in Richmond could take a step forward at tonight's City Council meeting; Richmond installs four speed enforcement cameras at two schools on a trial basis; and other stories

After years of back and forth, a federal agency announced Wednesday that the FBI’s new headquarters will be built in Maryland, not Virginia; State Senator Jennifer Boysko announced thursday that she will run for U.S. Congress to represent Virginia’s 10th District; Mental health in the U-S has worsened since the pandemic, hitting children especially hard.

11/09/23 - Governor Glenn Youngkin discussed the remainder of his term at the Virginia capitol after Democrats regain statehouse control; The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday in a case that will determine whether the Department of Veterans Affairs owes a Virginia military veteran more education benefits; and other stories

If certified, Tuesday night's unofficial results means GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin will have to work with them for the remainder of his term.

Voters can get in line bright and early starting at 6 a.m. to cast their votes

The maternal mortality rate in Virginia more than doubled between 2018 and 2020.

Richmond’s efforts to increase housing availability in the city is getting a funding boost from a national nonprofit; More than five years after launching the Pulse, GRTC has a project in the works to introduce new, larger buses to the rapid-transit line; The Franklin Inn has changed hands for the second time in less than 10 years; and other local business stories.

Saturday is the last day of in-person early voting ahead of Tuesday’s general election; Governor Glenn Youngkin issued a new executive order this week following several student overdoses in Northern Virginia; The Chickahominy tribe is receiving a 25-thousand-dollar grant from the Comcast Corporation to improve internet connectivity.

11/02/23 - Criminal justice advocates and Democrats are doubling down on calls for a federal investigation into the removal of 3400 voters from Virginia’s rolls; Dominion preps grid for renewables, surging electric demaSuburban women in Virginia likely to decide control of General Assembly; and other stories.nd;

A group aiming to help elect Republicans is offering to collect voters’ ballots and drop them off at polling stations; A federal judge earlier this week denied a motion to suspend new state hemp regulations; Political experts say neither party has a clear lead heading into the General Assembly elections; and other local news stories.

10/31/23 - Runoff union election results are in for some Richmond workers; Virginia election officials add voters back to voter rolls who were mistakenly purged; Isley Brewing closes; and other stories

This summer, the advocacy group R-V-A Rapid Transit released a report outlining the state of public transit in Richmond and several recommendations for improving the service. The report noted that only 26 percent of bus stops in the city have a bench or shelter. The Greater Richmond Transit Company, GRTC, says it plans to at least double that number over the next few years. As part of the VPM News Healthy City series, Transportation reporter Ian Stewart caught up with some riders who talked about their experiences.

The sale of yet another piece of a South Richmond industrial complex has clocked in as the largest real estate deal in the city so far this year; A downtown tattoo shop is heading to the Brookland Park Boulevard corridor after closing one of the highest priced deals in the Northside neighborhood in recent years; The Fan is set to get a pair of new taquerias right across the street from each other; and a multibuilding project in Scott’s Addition approaches the finish line with particulars about one of its restaurant tenants being revealed.

The death toll in Gaza is over 7,000 people since Israel began retaliating for a Hamas attack on October 7th; A federal appeals court has denied a request from six Southwest Virginia property owners to halt the Mountain Valley Pipeline's construction; Richmond Public Schools will host its second annual “fall for all festival” at River City Middle School this weekend; and other local news stories.