The 2026 session of the Virginia General Assembly begins January 14. For the next 60 days or more, a legislature dramatically tilted toward Democrats by last fall’selections will send bills […]
Five years after the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, former Charlottesville reporter and University of Virginia alum Nora Neus has released 24 Hours at the Capitol: An […]
The company that now operates both municipal downtown parking garages only collects data in order to make it easier for vehicles to get in and out, Charlottesville’s economic development director […]
In 2019, former University of Virginia president Jim Ryan announced an affordable housing initiative in which the public institution or its real estate foundation would provide land to help bring […]
With eyes closed and mouth open, I hear deer everywhere. It’s just before sundown on the day after Christmas, and we’re clustered in a hunter’s blind beside an old privy […]
At its first meeting of 2026, the Albemarle County School Board swore in two new members: Bob Beard and Jim Dillenbeck. While Beard ran uncontested for the Samuel Miller District […]
Outgoing Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice December 29, committing to end the Virginia Dream Act. The legislation, passed in 2020, allows […]
As President Trump pushes Republican-led states to redraw their Congressional districts for their party’s benefit in this year’s midterm elections, Virginia’s General Assembly plans to respond in kind. Democrats, who […]
The Albemarle Planning Commission has recommended denial of a developer’s second request to fill in a portion of the floodplain in order to build a commercial building in the county’s […]
In yet another test of the city’s new zoning code, the Charlottesville Board of Architectural Review has denied a necessary permit required for the current design of an apartment complex. […]