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.

This week Virginia's opioid crisis was framed as an isolated problem with the state's southwestern, rural white region. Now, new data shows cities and Black communities were also impacted. Hampton Roads officials are building sensors to measure roadway flooding in the area. Finally, the Trump administration is calling for the Navy to build battleships for the first time since World War II.

This week Norfolk celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. day, and along with it, held a ceremony for a historical state marker at the longstanding Attucks Theater on Church Street. Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones revoked the office's previous position that supported Virginia Beach's old citywide voting system. Finally, a Chesapeake bookstore that focuses on romance books has created a guide to help readers in the wake of the genre's recent boom.

This week apprenticeship opportunities for trades that are crucial to Hampton Roads' economy are struggling to scale to meet ever-increasing, current workforce demands. WHRO sat down with a former director for the National Institutes of Health under George W. Bush to discuss the biggest health challenges facing Americans. Finally, lawmakers are considering a legal retail market this year and that's great news for local hemp farmers. They've anticipated a switch to cannabis for years.

This week a wares shop in Williamsburg has served as a touchstone to residents and visitors with ties to Scotland and Ireland. Unique Celtic items have kept business rolling for over five decades. Investigators have renewed hope in a four-decade-old Chesapeake cold case. Finally, an artist known for her one of one holiday show in Hampton made the jump to Williamsburg to ring in the end of the holiday season.

Tuition for health care graduate programs has risen steadily over the past decade as workforce shortages persist.