Virginia travel, real estate & services

49+ min ago   (161+ words) VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The 64th annual Coastal Edge East Coast Surfing Championship is underway at the Virginia Beach oceanfront, kicking off a long weekend that is drawing thousands of visitors to the shore. Among the vendors setting up along the beach,…...

16+ hour, 42+ min ago   (56+ words) Run Richmond 1619 returns for its fifth year on Sept. 12, tracing 400 years of Black history through a 10.1-mile route with an interactive app as your guide. Run Richmond 1619 returns for its fifth year on Sept. 12, tracing 400 years of Black history through…...

10+ hour, 9+ min ago   (505+ words) A group of 10 Northern Virginia hikers went missing earlier this week during a religious pilgrimage near the China-Nepal border – an area decimated by flooding – prompting local outreach and mobilization from Nepalese community organizers. Rescue efforts are ongoing in light of…...

19+ hour, 21+ min ago   (68+ words) City Council unanimously approved Project IMPACT on Monday, a proposed strategy that would bring multiple city agencies and community partners together after certain shootings to address both the violence and the conditions surrounding it. City Council unanimously approved Project IMPACT…...

10+ hour, 30+ min ago   (637+ words) PJM, the regional grid operator for most of the East Coast, is asking federal regulators to approve a rule requiring new large-load customers, namely data centers, to bring their own power supply to the grid. With Virginia among the 13 states…...

11+ hour, 33+ min ago   (188+ words) Years into efforts to purge Richmond, Virginia — a former Confederate Capital — of memorials honoring the Confederacy, the Commonwealth of Virginia began removing three more Confederate memorials in the city on Friday. Statues honoring Confederate Generals Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson and…...

7+ hour, 39+ min ago   (498+ words) VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — With less than 70 days until Election Day, both candidates running in Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District were in Virginia Beach on Friday, focusing on health care and the ongoing war with Iran. Republican Rep. Jen Kiggans and Dr. Mehmet…...

11+ hour, 50+ min ago   (421+ words) Mukti Patel has huddled with family and friends at her parents’ Richmond, Virginia, home since her dad, sister and two other relatives went missing in the catastrophic flash floods along the Nepal-China border. She knows the hotel they were staying…...

12+ hour, 39+ min ago   (198+ words) A Virginia man who police said dressed in a mask similar to the one in the movie “Scream” has been arrested in connection with a number of destruction of property incidents at a community center in Lorton. Zion Gibbs, 22, of…...

16+ hour ago   (429+ words) (The Center Square) – Virginia earned an overall C for its infrastructure in a new report, with energy, schools and wastewater among the lowest-rated areas despite billions of dollars in recent state and federal investment. The American Society of Civil Engineers…...