Bypassing Congress, President Donald Trump on Saturday signed executive orders deferring payroll taxes for some Americans and extending unemployment benefits after negotiations on a new coronavirus rescue package collapsed.
A breakdown in the talks would put at risk more than $100 billion to help reopen schools, a fresh round of $1,200 direct payments to most people and hundreds of billions of dollars for state and local governments to help them avoid furloughing workers and cutting services as tax revenues shrivel.
As school systems grapple with the best ways to protect health and safety, they are also considering how the economic turmoil will affect students and their families.
The Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg is inviting guests to come see its two art museums since it has completed its $41.7 million expansion, which broke ground in April 2017.
The Virginia Department of Forestry is offering financial aid to remove dead or dying ash trees from public property due to the introduction of the emerald ash borer, which has caused a decline of the trees.
The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) reported 99,189 total positive coronavirus tests throughout the state Saturday - a 1,307 case increase since Friday.
With less than two months before the Sept. 30 deadline for the 2020 Census, local officials say Richmond, Petersburg and Hopewell are on track to miss out on millions of dollars in funding for roads, education and healthcare because enough people aren’t filling out the questionnaire.
A 72-year-old Canadian man has died while in ICE custody after being held at the Farmville Detention Center, where there is a large outbreak of COVID-19.
The military has recovered the bodies of nine people killed when a Marine landing craft sank in hundreds of feet of water off the Southern California coast.
The athletic department release cited nationwide developments over the course of the week and the impending cancellation of the NCAA FCS Championships as factors in the decision. The department will now shift its focus to exploring a spring football season.
It was another success story for the so-called “eagle whisperer” with the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office, releasing two bald eagles back into the wild.
Police in Virginia say that a rape suspect who was released from jail in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic went on to kill the woman who had accused him.
