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RICHMOND-For those travelling along Belvidere Street, you may have noticed a new sight.

Update (August 4): Richmond’s City Council decided in a unanimous vote that the Confederate monuments in the city will stay down for good. The city council approved an ordinance that permanently removes the monuments on Monday, and is offering the monuments for “relocation and placement.” According to reports from WRIC, this new measure will initiate…

Gov. Ralph Northam announced that Virginia will not be entering Phase Three of coronavirus recovery this week. He said that the state would enter Phase Three no earlier than June 26. Northam explained that Virginia’s health metrics continue to trend in a positive direction, but the state is not ready yet to further loosen restrictions.…

Welcome to today’s edition of the Dogwood. We’ve got a roundup of Virginia news coming right up. But First… Yesterday, Gov. Ralph Northam announced that a confederate monument of Robert E. Lee will officially be removed. With new legislation passed that allows localities to remove confederate monuments, more Virginia cities are following suit. Here are…

RICHMOND – Virginia’s governor is proposing spending $25 million to tear down monuments to white supremacy.

DINWIDDIE COUNTY – If you’re a fan of furniture, you know his name.

Virginia is set to enter Phase 3 on Wednesday. Here’s what to expect.

In the wake of nationwide protests fighting for justice for George Floyd, an unarmed black man killed by police, the push to remove Confederate monuments has been reignited. With over 200 Confederate monuments, Virginia has the most memorials of any state in the country. Legislators, Black community leaders and civil rights advocates have been fighting…

Donald Stratton, one of the last three remaining survivors of the U.S.S. Arizona warship sinking in Pearl Harbor, has died at the age of 97.

This otherwise quiet Lake Michigan beach is now the site of a 250-year-old shipwreck and a Michigan mystery.