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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...
Video shows an officer using a taser-like device on a man being held down by four other officers has circulated social media.
During deliberations Judge Bradley Calvedo referred to a Confederate general as an “American war veteran”
Demonstrators took to the streets to rally against the prospect of people being evicted as the coronavirus rages on.
Protests and rallies across the country erupted, seemingly overnight, when the video of police killing George Floyd went viral. But the demonstrations against racial injustice are not conjured out of thin air. It took people in communities throughout Virginia, some...
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is expected to announce plans Thursday for the removal of an iconic statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from Richmond's prominent Monument Avenue, a senior administration official told The Associated Press. The governor will direct the...
A Virginia long-term care facility with one of the nation’s worst known coronavirus outbreaks announced Thursday that testing conducted on all residents had more than doubled the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 to nearly 100 as the number of fatalities increased...
Nearly two dozen have been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, and four residents have died. A Virginia long-term rehabilitation facility is facing a staffing and supply shortage amid a coronavirus outbreak that has killed four patients and sickened many other...
Restaurants and businesses in Richmond are voluntarily closing their doors in the hope of slowing down the spread of the novel coronavirus. Although restaurants are not on the list of Governor Ralph Northam’s ban on public gatherings of 100 or more people, many have...
Welcome to today’s edition of the Dogwood Daily. We’ve got a round-up of all of today’s Virginia news coming right up. But first... We hope you had a great long weekend! Just a reminder that individual tax season starts in Virginia next week! Five things you...
Protesters worried new laws in Virginia will lead to gun safety legislation throughout the country. Elle Meyers also contributed reporting. Thousands of protestors gathered in Richmond Monday to oppose new gun safety legislation proposed by Democrats, including...
Welcome to today’s edition of the Dogwood Daily. We’ve got a round-up of all of today’s Virginia news coming right up. But first... This upcoming Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. WJLA has all the details if you plan to attend the parade celebrating...
Law enforcement officials detailed plans from "the Base" to sow chaos at Monday's rally against gun safety legislation. The white supremacists arrested ahead of next week’s anti-gun safety law rally in Richmond discussed opening fire from four locations at the Capitol...
Times-Dispatch investigation finds potential conflicts of interest between Richmond law firm and VCU Health. VCU Health System has taken hundreds of low-income patients to court since 2009 to strip them of their right to make medical decisions, the Richmond...
Welcome to today’s edition of the Dogwood Daily. We’ve got a round-up of all of today’s Virginia news coming right up. And if you’re a fan, please forward to three friends who need to know what’s going on in the Commonwealth and tell them...
Want to visit Richmond? You can find about 1,200 places to stay on Airbnb, but none of them are — technically — legal. City code prohibits rentals in residential properties for fewer than 30 days, but that hasn't stopped Richmonders from offering up their homes and...
Facing the second-highest eviction rates in the United States, Richmond is taking proactive steps to fight the city’s eviction crisis. Richmond's City Council last week approved a $485,140 grant to Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME), a nonprofit fair housing...
The Richmond City Council condemned the use of “conversion therapy” in the city on Monday, adopting a resolution first proposed by Mayor Levar Stoney. The council unanimously voted to approve the nonbinding resolution banning the dangerous and long-discredited...
Richmond-area schools suspend black students four times more often than white students, a gap that exceeds the national average, according to a new study from the Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium, the local research arm of Virginia Commonwealth...
Twenty-six Richmond Public Schools students were shot this past school year, NBC12 reports, and two lost their lives. That's more than one shooting victim for every 1,000 students in Richmond schools. For survivors like 11-year-old Jacquez Monez, the bullets don't...
Welcome to today’s edition of the Dogwood Daily. We’ve got a round-up of all of today's Virginia news coming right up. And if you're a fan, please forward to three friends who need to know what's going on in the Commonwealth and tell them...
The Richmond School Board has passed new policies aimed at protecting LGBTQ students from discrimination, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The new Student Code of Responsible Ethics says that students “must not be kept out of activities because of gender...
After a week of chaos that saw the Richmond City Council threaten to take legal action against Mayor Levar Stoney’s administration, the two sides finally came to an agreement, balancing the city’s $757 million budget without cutting education funding or raising taxes....
After a nearly three-and-a-half-hour public meeting, the Richmond City Council is no closer to a decision on Mayor Levar Stoney's budget proposal, deciding to delay a decision on the issue until a special meeting on April 29. Nearly 100 people attended a public...
Eighteen million in public school funding is on the line tonight in Richmond, where the City Council will hold a public hearing on Mayor Levar Stoney’s proposed real estate tax increase. Stoney, who has made revamping Richmond’s Public Schools one of his priorities,...
It’s no secret that the Richmond area faces an affordable housing crisis, but at least one nonprofit is trying to work with the community to do something about it. The Partnership for Housing Affordability, managed by the Richmond Association of Realtors, will hold a...
If you live in an American city in the 21st century, chances are you’ve encountered the hipster art galleries and artisanal coffee shops that are common hallmarks of gentrification. This is especially true if you live in Virginia Beach or Richmond, which are two of...
Edo Squid Arguably the best Italian restaurant in Richmond and simultaneously a (literal) hidden gem, Edo Squid features excellent seafood options and a variety of pasta dishes. Don’t let the confusing entrance intimidate you; once you’re there, you’ll know it by the...
Virginia voters backed Democrat Ghazala Hashmi over Republican John Reid.
Amid another Virginia hurricane season, the Commonwealth faces an unprecedented test: weathering severe storms without the full strength of the federal safety net.
