Jim Morrison

Fired executive director Nathan Simms also gave former colleagues top jobs at NRHA — including positions that oversaw contracts.

For two years, Nathan Simms directed no-bid contracts to former associates without being detected.

Hampton Roads Ventures’ 2025 annual report reveals a $15 million investment in two projects in other states, but none in Norfolk.

Accounts from Virginia Wesleyan University’s Alumni Council shed light on a name change process that was a closely held campaign, and a culmination of university President Scott Miller’s decade of leadership marked by transformative – and at times, controversial – decisions.

Board members say their hand was “forced” by the city council’s insistence on a plan to close buildings to align with declining enrollment.

The Norfolk School Board’s new proposal calls for closing Norview Elementary School and the Willoughby Early Childhood Center in 2026.

The Norfolk School Board will consider a facilities closure plan that was publicly outlined less than a week before the vote, but fulfills more of the city council’s directive.

Norfolk School Board members made their own closure plan, but it doesn’t fulfill City Council’s charge. With changing financial conditions, that could become a problem.

Norfolk Economic Development Agency voted to hand over its last large parcel, the defunct mall it bought in 2020, but only after the city preemptively voted to take it.