Protesters rally in Harrisonburg against a proposed city rule limiting panhandling… International trade is playing a bigger role in Virginia’s economy, but a debate in Congress could affect that… We have a report from the Eastern Shore, where efforts to clean up the Chesapeake Bay are complicated by massive chicken farms….

The UVa men’s basketball team has won its first ever NCAA championship – we’ll have a report from the game in Minneapolis and from Charlottesville… A new poll shows Governor Northam’s popularity has plunged since the blackface scandal… Workers across Virginia are about to get a lot more information in their paystubs….

Tangier Island , a 1.3 square mile spit of land in the Chesapeake Bay off the coast of Virginia, may be facing extinction. Acclaimed journalist Earl Swift has spent much of the last two years living there and his new book, Chesapeake Requiem , is an eye-opening look at a crisis that may completely engulf the island.

This week in Charlottesville, the University of Virginia, in partnership with the Heinrich Boell Foundation in Washington D.C., will host five visiting fellows from Germany to work with faculty and students on projects that deal with racism and history. WMRA's Marguerite Gallorini caught up with the foundation’s program director in Washington, D.C.

A sheriff’s deputy in Louisa County shoots an armed, suicidal man in a cemetery – the deputy is on leave, and the man is in the hospital… UVa partners with visiting fellows from Germany for a project on racist historical artifacts… The Virginia Cavaliers are in their first men’s basketball title game Monday night against Texas Tech – we have a preview….

The latest installment of the “Democracy in Peril?” series at James Madison University focused on ethics in Washington. WMRA’s Anna Saunders reports.

We have a look at a couple of legislative success stories from this year’s General Assembly, including funding for affordable housing, and eviction reform… In the latest Democracy in Peril forum at JMU, the former head of the federal government’s ethics agency says President Trump is the most corrupt president in modern history… With the Cavaliers men’s team in the Final Four, we have a preview of Saturday night’s match-up with Auburn….

Crozet will see its first self-driving shuttle this spring… More than half a million people in Virginia with outstanding court fines are about to get their driver’s licenses back… Meanwhile, drivers along the Interstate 81 corridor are about to see higher gas taxes AND new infrastructure improvements – we have the details, plus a view of all this from a trucker’s perspective….

Virginia lawmakers voted Wednesday [April 2] to hike gas taxes in some parts of the state to improve Interstate 81. Earlier this year, trucking groups helped scuttle a proposal for truck tolls to pay for improvements to the interstate. WMRA’s Jason Barr reports on all this from a trucker’s perspective.

Lawmakers return to Richmond today to consider the governor’s amendments and vote on his vetoes… Meanwhile, the GOP House leader says Democrats have blocked hearings for the two women who accuse the lieutenant governor of sexual assault… You knew this was coming – you can now get a degree in E-sports at Shenandoah University in Winchester….