Virginia Wesleyan University will officially be renamed Batten University, according to an announcement from the university.

Texas cannot require public schools in Houston, Austin and other select districts to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, a judge said Wednesday in a temporary ruling against the state’s ...

The festival features more than 60 beers from 30 breweries, including Cape Charles Brewing, Devil’s Backbone Brewing and Young Veterans Brewing. Nonalcoholic beer and seltzers are new this year.

A Virginia Housing Commission workgroup met Tuesday to hear updates from lawmakers on proposed legislation to address the housing crisis, including proposals to adjust how housing trust fund money ...

NORFOLK — As of Aug. 15, runway 14/32 at Norfolk International Airport is closed.

The week’s biggest news for Wall Street is likely arriving on Friday, when Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will give a highly anticipated speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The setting has been home ...

The Republican-controlled Texas legislature is expected to pass a new congressional map creating five new winnable seats for the GOP.

More than one in three Virginia veterans receives Social Security benefits, according to a new report released Saturday.

About 50 workshop participants and came up with three action items that could be realistically implemented, or at least begun, within the coming 12-month period.

The latest losses were announced just weeks after King William parted company with its county administrator and finance director. It has seen a slew of high-profile departures over the last two ...

The world’s most prosperous and successful economies today are the mixed economies, that is, economies that are capitalistic enough to produce general abundance, but which also feature enough ...

On Wednesday morning, Hurricane Erin was several hundred miles off the coast of Florida and beginning to push storm surge and deadly rip currents toward the shore. Two other systems may form right ...