This week astronauts on the Artemis II mission requested to name a moon crater after astronaut Reid Wiseman's wife, Carroll, who was a Virginia Beach native. A new law is supposed to provide more transparency to Virginians about police use of Flock traffic cameras in the state. Finally, senior homelessness is a growing problem in the U.S. Hampton Roads is facing its own issues as a third of the homeless population is 55 and older.

This week Virginia lawmakers are pushing to protect reproductive rights in the state constitution, but access to care could still remain a complicated issue. Federal funding for medical research in Virginia continues to be a big economic driver for the state. That's despite a drop in the total number of projects funded. Finally, WHRO's John Doucette speaks with actor and comedian Nick Offerman ahead of his comedy and craftsman show in Virginia Beach later this month.

This week people from all over the community honored the ROTC instructor killed by a gunman at Old Dominion University on March 12. The ROTC cadets who subdued the gunman were also honored in a private ceremony. The USS Gettysburg made its return to Hampton Roads this week after five months in the Caribbean as part of Operation Southern Spear. Finally, a new government report found military dogs living in substandard, unsanitary conditions. These issues at ten bases directly contributed to the deaths of four dogs.

This week artificial intelligence has become a dicey topic for many people in recent years. Grocers in Williamsburg are leveraging it to reduce food waste, but it's also coming at the cost of reducing donations to food pantries. A decade-long study about blue crab cannibalism in the Chesapeake Bay provides insight into the crustaceans' odd behavior. Finally, we have a roundup of everything we know about last week's shooting at Old Dominion University.

This week a shooting at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront last weekend left six people injured. Now, the city may use early emergency curfews to mitigate and control weekend crowds. NOAA is considering new vessel speed rules to limit collisions with endangered whales. Finally, a Norfolk woman thought she was suffering from an every day skin rash, but it turned out to be a rare autoimmune disease. We'll hear her story.

This week families of local airmen and sailors are bracing for long deployments after the United States and Israel launched attacks in Iran over the weekend. Virginia has confirmed ten measles cases in the first two months of 2026. That's more than double the amount of confirmed cases in all of 2025. Finally, a new analysis of Hampton Roads shows that options are limited for people who use housing vouchers to find suitable homes.

This week Dominion Energy informed shareholders that it lost over $200 million from pausing work on its offshore wind farm, but the project is still on schedule despite the delays. Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger provided the Democrats' response to President Trump's State of the Union address. It heavily criticized the president's tariff policies. Finally, it's Girl Scout cookie season. WHRO's Mechelle Hankerson went behind the scenes to see how the cookie operation is carried out.

This week a new, RV-style nursing classroom is hitting the streets in Hampton Roads. It's part of an effort to allow students to refine clinical skills before working with real patients. Congress approved half of a million dollars for the Army Corps of Engineers to study the potential of adding Norfolk's south side to the floodwall. Finally, host Jordan Christie sits down with Kunle Falayi, an award-winning data journalist at VCIJ, to discuss the prevalence of Flock Cameras installed around Hampton Roads.

This week legal cannabis sales are inching closer to becoming a reality in Virginia, but lawmakers across the state are still debating when exactly legal sales should start. Hampton is set to launch a new initiative in its school system to prepare for climate impacts. The city received half a million dollars in funding from the state for the project. Finally, environmental and fishing groups are once again pushing state lawmakers to halt industrial menhaden fishing in the Chesapeake Bay.

This week the Virginia Dental Association is locked in a dispute with dental hygienists from the commonwealth over two bills moving through the senate that would allow dental assistants to clean parts of teeth. The destroyer USS Truxtun left Norfolk this week, three months after returning from the Middle East. Finally, Clipse, the Virginia Beach rap duo of brothers Malice and Pusha T, came away with the group's first win at the Grammy Awards.