Military & Veterans

Tee Walker, 54, is browsing files in the editing and podcast suite at Music Theory Studios in Norfolk. Walker participates in a program for military veterans in which they learn audio engineering, but can also get free therapy to contend with mental health issues stemming from their service.

Norfolk studio teaches about the business and healing power of music

Olivia Royster

Music Theory Studios started a Beats by Vets program, which offers audio engineering classes for military veterans. Music has been proven to ease symptoms of anxiety and depression.

Paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division, load munitions onto a UH-60 Black Hawk at Forward Operating Base Shalalot,

Military & Veterans

The Naro in Norfolk will screen documentary on the U.S. military’s global environmental impact

Steve Walsh

“Earth's Greatest Enemy” is being shown Wednesday at 7 pm.

Local Government

Pentagon bars William & Mary from college program

Williamsburg Watch

William & Mary "puzzled and saddened" by Department of Defense announcement.

U.S. Sailors observe as an E-2D Hawkeye aircraft on USS Gerald R. Ford during Operation Epic Fury.

Military & Veterans

Families of airmen, sailors brace for long deployments after Pentagon reports six troops died in operation against Iran

Steve Walsh

Virginia Army and Air National Guard are in the Middle East along with five Norfolk-based ships and fighters from Langley.

Esmeralda Castle, the mother of slain Norfolk-based sailor Angelina Rezendiz is calling for an independent investigation outside Gate 5 at Naval Station Norfolk.

Military & Veterans

Supporters of Norfolk-based sailor Angelina Resendiz are calling for independent investigation ahead of Navy trial

Steve Walsh

Resendiz was found dead in June. Her fellow sailor at Norfolk Naval Station faces murder charges in a court-martial set for June.

U.S. Sailors from the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, return after responding to a man overboard training evolution in a rigid-hull inflatable boat launched from USS Iwo Jima while underway in the Caribbean Sea.

Military & Veterans

Marine from USS Iwo Jima declared lost at sea

Steve Walsh

USS Truxtun was involved in a collision, all part of Operation Southern Spear in the Caribbean.

Former Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro inspected unaccompanied housing at Naval Station Norfolk.

Military & Veterans

Developer says delayed $1.8 billion plan to privatize all housing for junior sailors in Hampton Roads is getting underway

Steve Walsh

Originally expected last year, the 8,000-bed project was part of the recent defense budget.

An 1851 map of Norfolk and Portsmouth. Boats that docked along the Elizabeth River often hid enslaved people escaping to freedom. Virginia waters were used as part of the Underground Railroad and the subject will be discussed at a Thursday talk at The Slover library.

Arts & Culture

Talks look at Virginia's maritime role, from the Underground Railroad to WWII

Staff Report

The Sail250 lecture series began in 2025 and continues with discussions on how the state's waterways made Virginia critical to historical events. The lectures are free.

Shipbuilders at Newport News Shipbuilding watch as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth gives remarks before the future Virginia-class submarine Oklahoma.

Military & Veterans

Hegseth rails against cost overruns while touring Newport News Shipbuilding

Steve Walsh

The tour comes as the Congressional Research Service estimates that a new “battleship” could cost $15 billion.

U.S. Coast Guard tactical team members are hoisted into an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter on the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford.

Local News

Thousands of local sailors and Marines won’t be home for the holidays as the U.S mission in the Caribbean widens

Steve Walsh

The USS Ford strike group and the USS Iwo Jima ARG have spent months in the region around Venezuela.