Virginia On Demand

The top stories for September 17, 2026, including Gov. Spanberger issuing a state of emergency to help farmers amidst low hay production, mail-in ballots are on their way to households, and community members step up in an effort to reduce gun violence in Charlottesville.

The top stories for September 16, 2026, including the development of a naloxone patch to treat opioid overdoses, King George County's school board reverses course on blocking a club for LGBTQ students, and a former music professor from Sweet Briar College specializes in compositions for the left hand.

The top stories for September 15, 2026, including new terms unveiled by Dominion and NextEra as part of their potential merger, Gov. Spanberger recently ended a Youngkin-era rule that limited transgender students' participation in sports, and more on what occurred Friday, when a Roanoke Valley board signed off on a purchase agreement for what opponents believe is a data center.

The top stories for September 14, 2026, including what impact federal "rural" maps could have on Virginia's Rural Health Transformation Fund, a board in the Roanoke Valley votes for a purchase agreement for land - one opponents say is a data center plan, and a preview of November's vote for a one-percent sales tax to fund school construction across the Commonwealth.

The top stories for September 11, 2026, including plans by the Virginia State Crime Commission to review cases from former forensic scientist Mary Jane Burton, the start of early voting in Virginia includes the mailing of absentee ballots, and an open house will be held this weekend at Hope Legacy's Equine Rescue in Afton.

The top stories for September 10, 2026 including a look at how complaints over data centers in Virginia have made residents experts on Freedom of Information Act requests, and Waynesboro residents organize against a potential Northrup Grumman plant in Waynesboro.

The top stories for September 9, 2026, including a Department of Corrections report on deaths in Virginia prisons, bipartisan efforts to end or limit the use of Flock cameras, previewing one of the three constitutional amendments on ballots this fall, and we meet Youssef Bouzidi, one of the top-ranked Pickleball players, who happens to live in Roanoke.

The top stories for September 8, 2026, including work on a nearly 200-year old Roanoke County farm that will soon be a housing development, a shortage of estrogen patches has patients scrambling, and we visit a ska music festival in Hampton Roads.

The top stories for September 7, 2026, including Old Dominion University's memorial for Leiutenant Colonel Brandon Shah, Gov. Spanberger's Commission on Unlocking Housing Production, and a look at Buchanan County's consolidation of four high schools into one.

The top stories for September 9, 2026, including more communities suspending the use of Flock Cameras, RVA Community Fridges provide their 17th free fridge in the Jackson Ward neighborhood, The Virginia Film Festival unveils its first Producers award, and in their Friday chat, analyst Jeff Schapiro and Michael Pope look at some midterm races.