Category Archives: Local News

(Richmond)- Help is on the way to keep Virginians in their homes. Governor Northam says 524-million-dollars in federal funding is being provided to the Virginia Rent Relief Program. Tenants ...Read more

(Richmond)- Virginia’s unemployment extension program is active and benefits could go out as early as Thursday.  The Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation program offers eleven weeks ...Read more

(Richmond)- Virginians can get notifications when they may have been exposed to COVID-19. The state Department of Health is launching COVIDWISE Express. It’s an app-less exposure notification ...Read more

(Richmond)- Governor Northam is teaming up with other local leaders to ask the federal government for additional vaccines. Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, and Northam wrote ...Read more

(Southern Maryland)- One educator in Southern Maryland is now the recipient of the Velma Clark Excellence in Teaching About Agriculture Award. The Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation picked ...Read more

(Chesterfield)- Chesterfield state Senator Amanda Chase is suing the state GOP. She is accusing the party of disenfranchising Republican voters for planning a convention to nominate its next ...Read more

(Arlington)- Students will soon be welcomed back to the classroom in Arlington. The school district announced yesterday that hybrid learning will begin on March 2nd. Pre-Kindergarten through second ...Read more

(Richmond)- The Virginia Employment Commission is launching the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation extension program today. It is for customers who have ran out all of their previous ...Read more

(Richmond)- Select Virginians will have to wait a bit longer to register for the COVID vaccine at one pharmacy. C-V-S Health is pushing back its vaccine registration to Thursday due to concerns ...Read more

(DC)- The National Zoo is no longer affiliating with Friends of the National Zoo. The Zoo Director says he’s sorry the relationship is ending but cited the coronavirus pandemic as the reason. ...Read more