A severe jail officer shortage at the Hampton Roads Regional Jail — with more than a third of the jobs now vacant — has created safety issues that led the institution to begin moving more than 250 inmates back to their home cities’ jails.
A New York City-based real estate developer plans to buy and renovate the aging public housing community where music icon Pharrell Williams lived as a child near the Oceanfront.
Sentara administered its first round of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines Tuesday afternoon at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, and Gov. Ralph Northam was there to watch it happen.
Gov. Ralph Northam urged all Virginians to stay home from midnight to 5 a.m. unless they need to be out, and he also imposed new pandemic restrictions Thursday as coronavirus infection rates continue to soar across the state.
Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has formally announced his candidacy for next year’s gubernatorial contest in a race that will serve as a barometer of voter sentiment during President-elect Joe Biden’s first year in office.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper unveiled a modified stay-at-home order on Tuesday that requires the state’s roughly 10.5 million residents to remain off the streets between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.