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The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative incentivizes states to cut down on carbon emissions. (Image by Leonid Sorokin via Shutterstock)

Virginia environmental groups will challenge Youngkin’s RGGI withdrawal

A full petition is slated to be filed in Fairfax County Circuit Court within 30 days.

Out of the Box Album of the Week--Bethany Cosentino--Natural Disaster

Bethany Cosentino’s solo debut album “Natural Disaster” poses the question; is it worth it to improve ourselves if the world isn’t around long enough for us to benefit?

Beautiful Street in Seatack, where a battery storage facility is planned. (Photo by Mechelle Hankerson)

Seatack residents push back against proposed battery storage facility in their historically Black neighborhood

The civic league of the Virginia Beach neighborhood says health and safety concerns haven’t been addressed

Sheriff Ken Stolle. (Image courtesy of Virginia Beach Sheriff’s Office)

Virginia Beach sheriff Stolle announces retirement

Chief Deputy and city councilman Rocky Holcomb will step in as interim sheriff.

The sign outside of the Richmond Registrar's Office, Richmond, Virginia, on Aug. 1, 2023. The city electoral board voted on July 25 to limit in-person early voting to this location in northern Richmond, near the city limit.

Richmond voting site closures could make in-person early voting inaccessible to minority voters

Republicans cite cost savings to limiting early voting stations, while Democrats claim it's an effort to limit poll access to Black voters that could spread through the commonwealth

Lawmakers and City of Chesapeake officials pose with an oversize check to help pay for the city’s first public pool. (Image: Laura Philion)

Chesapeake gets $3 million more for its first public pool

Congressman Bobby Scott presented a $3 million check to the city to jumpstart the nearly $20 million project.

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough speaks at 25th Anniversary Ceremony at the Military Women’s Memorial in Arlington, Va., Oct. 15, 2022. (Department of Defense)

Secretary McDonough says the VA handling high volume ahead of PACT deadline

As the PACT Act approaches an Aug. 9 deadline for veterans to receive additional benefits, the country's head of the Veterans Affairs says the agency is handling the added volume with more than 5 million veterans eligible.

As temperatures rise, Hampton Roads hospitals see hundreds of patients with heat-related illness

About 6% of all Virginia emergency and urgent care visits each summer can be attributed to heat, according to the state health department.

How Virginia Beach and the DMV made rap safe (and profitable!) for eccentrics

As NPR celebrates 50 years of hip-hop and rap, a look at how Virginia Beach carved a spot for itself in the genre.

Doula Mayasa Telfair, center, updates midwife Marsha Jackson on Tonithia Reid’s labor. Only when Telfair was fairly sure Reid was ready to give birth did she call in Jackson. Reid delivered soon after the midwife arrived.

‘I Just Don't Want To Die’: Black Pregnant Women Are Turning To Midwives For Personalized Care — And A Better Chance At Survival

With maternal deaths highest among Black women, some are shunning traditional care during their pregnancies.

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