Early childhood education is getting a major boost from an initiative at Virginia Commonwealth University that works to recruit, train, support and retain quality early childhood teachers.

More fresh lettuce, tomatoes and other regionally grown produce could be headed to the cafeteria meals served to students in schools in Richmond and Henrico and Chesterfield counties.

After a year of internal disagreement and conflict with the mayor and City Council, the Richmond School Board voted 5-4 Monday to build a much-needed and long-overdue new George Wythe High School with a capacity for 1,800 students.

It was in early January that the man formerly known as Robert Henry “Wize” Green learned he would be released from prison after serving more than 20 years behind bars.

ATLANTA The National Urban League released its annual report on the State of Black America on Tuesday, and its findings are grim. This year’s Equality Index shows Black people still get only 73.9 percent of the American pie white people …

A federal jury convicted a former Rocky Mount, Va., police officer of storming the U.S. Capitol with another off-duty officer to obstruct Congress from certifying President Biden’s 2020 electoral victory.

Richmond voters for the first time could cast their ballot for more than one candidate in the 2024 City Council elections.

A former three-star Army general has been tapped to become the next president of Hampton University.

Dr. Hakim J. Lucas, the president and chief executive officer of Virginia Union University, has more job security.

Free community testing for COVID-19 continues.

The Richmond Virtual Academy is to become a new elementary school that could enroll between 400 and 500 students a year in online classes, the Richmond School Board decided Monday night. Instead of phasing out the program online learning program …

Could there be a spike in homelessness in Richmond?

A seminar aimed at fostering good mental health among Black men and featuring a former NFL player turned licensed therapist will be held 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 14, at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Academic Learning Commons

Republican Gov. Glenn A. Youngkin vetoed 25 bills — including some that passed with broad bipartisan support — as he took action on more than 800 bills the divided legislature sent him during its regular session.

“In my family, it took just one generation to go from segregation to the Supreme Court of the United States.” With those words, incoming Justice Ketanji Brown Jack- son acknowledged both the struggles and progress of Black Americans in her …