About 40 people lay on the ground in silence in front of the Capitol Square Bell Tower on Oct. 23. The crowd remained on the ground for a few minutes in honor of transgender students who have not felt safe at school.
The gathering is hosted each year to commemorate the day when Gabriel, a rebellion leader who had been enslaved, was executed at the town gallows.
The Richmond School Board unanimously passed a proposal at its last meeting to create a commission to improve the outcomes of Latinx students in response to allegations of mistreatment and low graduation rates.
This year's midterm elections follow changes from redistricting and partisan tensions that have arisen from issues gripping the state such as inflation and reproductive rights.
The University of Richmond is planning to have a vaccine clinic from noon to 7 p.m. on Sept. 29 in the Robins Center.
The University of Richmond College Democrats hosted congressional candidate Herb Jones at their first meeting of the year on Sept. 7.
The Richmond and Henrico health districts' guidelines for eligibility to receive a monkeypox vaccine have expanded to include anyone with multiple sexual partners in the past two weeks.
President Joe Biden announced he would cancel up to $10,000 in student loan debt for borrowers making less than $125,000 a year and up to $20,000 for borrowers who received Pell Grants.
Since the states can decide their own restrictions, here’s how the end of the federal protection could affect Virginia.
Virginia public school teachers are now required to inform parents about any sexually explicit content in instructional material under a law signed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin on April 6.
Regardless of the changes made on a state level, current campus policy prohibiting marijuana usage will remain.
The Richmond City Council faced public backlash on the proposed budget for the 2023 fiscal year in the first of two scheduled public hearings on April 11.
Senate Democrats in the Commerce and Labor Committee blocked a bill Monday that aimed to reverse legislation giving public employees the right to collective bargaining.
UR will be divided between the 14th and 16th Virginia Senate districts and 78th and 58th House of Delegates districts starting in 2023 as a result of Virginia’s redrawn congressional maps.
RPS joined six other Virginia school districts in a lawsuit against Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order that gave parents the right to opt-out of mask mandates at K-12 schools.
Henrico Sen. Jennifer McClellan is a chief-copatron of the Virginia Literacy Act, a bill that would make several changes to early student literacy if passed by the whole Senate.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s first executive order, signed on Jan. 15, called for ending the use of inherently divisive concepts, including critical race theory, in K-12 public education throughout the state of Virginia.
Virginia’s minimum wage increased to $11 an hour on Jan. 1 as part of a plan to gradually increase it to $15 while dodging challenges from Republicans.
The Biden administration launched its website for households to request free at-home COVID-19 tests on Tuesday.
School officials and parents continue to navigate challenges with contact tracing, quarantining and vaccinations while many aspects of life returned to normal.
