Other schools may hide that student funding in other accounting ways, but even if you account for all “institutional support,” JMU has the second most school-subsidized athletic ...

Job Corps was launched in 1964 by President Lyndon Johnson as a part of his War on Poverty domestic reform. It’s a U.S. government-sponsored residential education and job training program for ...

Here are 11 charts that help put athletic funding at Virginia Tech and Virginia in context with other schools.

Local governments seem to be more concerned about protecting their local land use and zoning authority than being a cooperative partner in addressing the housing affordability crisis.

Glenn Youngkin’s final budget proposal includes raises for teachers and an effort to make the standard tax deduction permanent — but not an attempt to eliminate the car tax.

A crowd is expected to turn out Thursday for the official start of the $240 million rebuilding of the upper half of the Virginia Creeper Trail, which was severely damaged by Hurricane Helene in ...

Glenn Youngkin’s final two-year state budget proposal released Wednesday includes $35 million toward an inland port in Southwest Virginia. The facility would move shipping containers by rail to and ...

It may not qualify as “Torchmas” in Virginia, but Christmas week looks likely to be much milder than the first half of December has been.

A temporary casino facility opened in May 2023, meaning the city has had this revenue stream for over two-and-a-half years. In that time, Danville has received a total of about $69 million from the ...

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The state’s auditor of public accounts has asked the city to provide additional information and financials to determine if Radford is in “fiscal distress,” a determination that could lead to ...

The conflagration was a decisive propaganda victory for the Patriots, but there’s evidence, suppressed at the time, that they actually ordered the burning.