Governor Youngkin visits Albemarle County to tout the expansion of a local startup… Meanwhile this week, the governor’s plans for diversity, and his plans for next year, have been making headlines, and Jeff Schapiro joins us for analysis… Shenandoah National Park hosts its 37th Wildflower Weekend….

A free healthcare clinic returns to the Valley, with dental, vision and medical services… The family of Irvo Otieno has more questions about how and why the 28-year-old was taken to jail while he was having a mental health crisis… Two years after Virginia abolished the death penalty, a minister who accompanied 28 men to the electric chair has written a memoir about that experience….

Two men escape from a Farmville jail, and one is considered extremely dangerous… Dominion Energy wants to reduce rates for customers… The engineering department at VMI enlists a robot to do battle with ticks….

Virginia Beach is recovering from a rare tornado that hit the area Sunday… Governor Youngkin says he won’t run for president… The controversy over the governor’s Diversity Chief isn’t just about rhetoric… An analysis finds that Youngkin’s appointments are less racially diverse and more male-dominated compared to those of former Governor Northam….

The state’s legislative Black Caucus joins the NAACP in calling for Virginia’s Diversity Chief to resign after he attacked diversity programs at VMI… The rate of suspected suicide attempts by poisoning among children and adolescents spiked in the first full year of the pandemic… When it comes to curbing tobacco use, Virginia gets one of the lowest grades in the nation….

The governor’s appointee for diversity and inclusion speaks out against diversity programs on the VMI campus… A group of Valley high school students pay a visit to Farmville, a key historical site during the fight over segregation in Virginia… In our weekly politics chat, Jeff Schapiro joins us to discuss this year’s elections, as incumbents face other incumbents in the primaries, and the governor’s trip to Asia….

The Blue Ridge Area Food Bank learns more about the “missing guests” who need food assistance, but aren’t getting it… As his Asia trip continues, Governor Youngkin says in Japan that he hopes to create supply chains that are not dependent on China… Virginia's labor force participation rate returns to pre-pandemic levels….

A new report lists a range of fixes for the embattled Charlottesville Albemarle SPCA to address alleged mismanagement and animal mistreatment… The fate of a statue of Robert E. Lee is still in limbo in a court in Charlottesville… And, in a tale of love amid the difficulties of navigating the child welfare system, the story of how one family in Stuarts Draft was made….

A trailblazer of school desegregation in Charlottesville, one of the women featured in WMRA’s Voices of Integration series, returns to her hometown to address a women’s leadership forum… Virginia’s top elections official attended a conference in February apparently sponsored by conservative groups aimed at tightening voting laws… Full Disclosure’s Roben Farzad talks about the rich people from elsewhere spending money on Virginia’s election campaign this year….

One of the people carrying a torch in connection with the 2017 Unite the Rally in Charlottesville faces felony charges… Virginia's maternal mortality rate surged during the pandemic… This year’s General Assembly elections are attracting record amounts of campaign cash….