The Richmond school system staged its annual graduation convocation yesterday, drawing more than 1,000 graduates to the Ashe Center and bleachers full...

The state Workers Compensation Commission last year found that VCU professor Allan Rosenbaum’s silicosis was caused by his exposure to hazardous...

An agreement that would allow the family of Richard Ripp to buy city property at the Richmond Intermediate Terminal along the James River is set to expire...

Chesterfield County celebrated National Trails Day on Saturday with the opening of the John C. Radcliffe Appomattox River Conservation Area. The conservation...

A standard pair of police handcuffs was too ordinary for Grace Hazelgrove’s taste as she pondered what might make good Crime Stoppers art. “That’s...

Crews were working last night to fix two large holes in the street in downtown Richmond that were discovered late Friday afternoon after part of a sewer...

With the push of a button, Harriet Tubman came to life and began telling her story. In a bustling hallway almost too packed to pass, Eleanor Kuhn and Julia...

A four-day forum at the University of Richmond is under way with an ambitious agenda: teaching social change. The Trust Factor Forum, sponsored by Initiatives...

The possible appointment of Byron C. Marshall as Richmond’s chief administrative officer is drawing sharply different responses from some City Council...

The Anthem Stride Through Time, a 10K walk last weekend through Richmond, raised $2,000 on behalf of Richmond history. Proceeds from the walk went toward...

The Richmond Police Department will introduce its three new geldings to the public tomorrow at an “open stables” event. Police Chief Bryan...

Thanks to a local philanthropist, George Mason Elementary School is getting a new playground. Two days after the school’s showplace piece of recreational...

Broad Street will be closed between Belvidere and Adams streets from midnight tonight to 8 p.m. tomorrow for the second annual Broad Appetit. Richmond...

Thanks to a local philanthropist, George Mason Elementary School is getting a new playground. Two days after the school’s showplace piece of recreational...

Ashland Farmers’ Market, 101 Thompson St., Ashland, 798-9219. 9 a.m.-noon Saturdays through November.   Byrd House Market, behind William Byrd...

Authorities charged a suspect with arson and attempted murder in a fire late Tuesday night on Whitcomb Street in Richmond’s East End. A Richmond...

A Richmond man who assaulted his estranged wife, fatally stabbed her dog and tried to escape police by swimming across the James River will serve five...

The head of Richmond’s mental-health agency, Wilson J. Washington Jr., is leaving after just less than a year in that position. “He is not...

A police call for a domestic matter in North Richmond ended with a man being charged with shooting at officers and taking part in the slaying of a man...

A Richmond strip-club owner faces a two-day hearing this month that could cost him his state license to sell alcoholic beverages. The Virginia Department...