Toby Cox
Business & Growth ReporterToby is WHRO's business and growth reporter. She got her start in journalism at The Central Virginian newspaper in her hometown of Louisa, VA. Before joining WHRO's newsroom in 2025, she covered climate and sea-level rise in Charleston, SC at The Post and Courier. Her previous work can also be found in National Geographic, NPR, Summerhouse DC, The Revealer and others.
The best way to reach her is at toby.cox@whro.org or 757-748-1282.
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The city is the eighth locality in Virginia to give its employees negotiating power. -
Funding is the main resource needed to reduce bureaucratic bottlenecks and provide actual housing assistance. -
One Hampton Roads woman took WHRO on the futile journey as she tried to navigate an unclear and often roundabout system. -
People told the Lieutenant Governor they’re worried about higher bills, data centers, job losses, grid reliability and the future of clean energy. -
A third of Virginia businesses say they’ve lost employees who couldn’t find childcare. -
The cities are among local governments around the region and across Virginia looking to land-use rules as a way to regulate data centers. -
As the homeless population in Hampton Roads skews older, local organizations look at what other states are doing to keep their eldest residents housed. -
A survey gave participants a hypothetical $1,000 to spend on regional issues, mimicking the challenges of budget constraints. -
The study suggests smoking in public housing is still widespread in the region, despite federal smoke-free housing policies. -
The settlement prevents the landlord from renting properties in the state ever again.
