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Ospreys in a nest in the upper James River.

Environment & Sea Level Rise

Massive new study says ospreys are thriving in some parts of the Chesapeake Bay – but not enough

Katherine Hafner

Saltier regions of the bay, such as Hampton Roads, are expected to see the biggest osprey declines.

Arts & Culture

New game brings the Declaration of Independence to life for students

Peyton Tattersfield

'Investigation Declaration' from iCivics and Colonial Williamsburg wins national award and will be featured at Educators Appreciation Night on Wednesday.

A home that has been lifted is reflected in a puddle of floodwater in Norfolk in October 2023.

Environment & Sea Level Rise

Many Hampton Roads residents see flooding as a threat — including to home values, ODU survey shows

Katherine Hafner

Residents of Norfolk were the most likely to report risk, followed closely by Portsmouth and Virginia Beach.

Janice Hawkins, ODU nursing professor and vice provost for academic affairs, photographed across from campus in Norfolk on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025.

Environment & Sea Level Rise

ODU nursing professor earns national recognition for climate activism

Katherine Hafner

“Nurses are really designed for this work,” said award finalist Janice Hawkins.

Professor Rom Lipcius holds a stone crab caught by a local waterman, now stored at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. As seen Monday, Aug. 25, 2025.

Environment & Sea Level Rise

Stone crabs documented in Virginia waters for the first time

Katherine Hafner

The species prefers tropical waters, but appears to be spreading north as the Chesapeake Bay warms.

Virginia Beach school bus driver Donna Lightfoot and retired school bus driver Rebecca Brantley hold signs to passersby at Town Center on Sunday, Aug. 24, as part of a rally against significant increases in health insurance premiums recently announced by the schools.

Local Government

Why Virginia Beach teachers are suing after health care cost changes

John-Henry Doucette

Virginia Beach Superintendent Donald Robertson received an additional raise while teachers and staff dealt with news of rising health care costs that doubled for some people.

Environment & Sea Level Rise

Norview High grad wants to build more green space in underserved communities — starting with her own

Katherine Hafner

Zuri Askew, a rising sophomore at North Carolina A&T State University, recently won a scholarship to pursue her passion for landscape architecture.

A female blue crab found near Oyster on Virginia's Eastern Shore, featuring her spongelike egg mass.

Environment & Sea Level Rise

How a parasitic worm could help revive the Chesapeake Bay blue crab population

Katherine Hafner

New research out of William & Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science explores the relationship between the worm and its host.

LT. Gen. (R) Arthur Gregg poses with photos of Lt. Col. Charity Adams and himself at the base now renamed Fort Lee.

Military & Veterans

A New York university dedicated a center for the late Lt. Gen. Gregg weeks after his name was removed from what is again Fort Lee

Steve Walsh

Gregg went to high school in Newport News before becoming the first Black three star general in the Army.

An illustration of the bolide impact in the Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago.

Environment & Sea Level Rise

Geologists uncover new evidence from ancient asteroid that hit the Chesapeake Bay

Katherine Hafner

The research in North Carolina documents downstream remnants of the 35-million-year-old tsunami that followed the extraterrestrial impact.