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RAA warns service in jeopardy without greater city subsidy

Richmond has long boasted of having one of the best ambulance services in the country. But the Richmond Ambulance Authority is warning City Council that the ability to maintain quality emergency response is being jeopardized by Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s …

Finding the silver lining

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an unprecedented challenge to people and businesses during the last two years. But some Richmond area residents have been able to find a silver lining during the crisis.

Re-entry training program locked out of former school building

The shutdown has come for a Richmond-based program that linked people released from jails and prisons to training for construction jobs.

Free COVID-19 testing, vaccines

Free community testing for COVID-19 continues. The Richmond and Henrico County health districts are providing walk-up testing throughout the area.

RISC gets affordable housing commitments from some City Council members

A coalition of religious and community groups have received new commitments from City Council members to address affordable housing, including the state of mobile homes, in the city.

City sluggish in distributing health grant, establishing emergency fund

The City of Richmond last year was awarded a $4 million federal grant to improve health literacy in Black and Latinx sections of the city.

VSU, NSU presidents among 18 appointed to advisory board on HBCUs

Virginia State University President Makola M. Abdullah and Norfolk State University President Javaune Adams-Gaston have been appointed by President Biden to serve on his board of advisors for historically black colleges and universities.

Transit union calls for assaulted GRTC driver to be reinstated

GRTC is facing pushback for firing a driver who subdued a passenger after he refused to don a mandatory mask and hit the driver on the arm when he called for assistance.

Former Monroe Park Conservancy head acquitted in assault

Alice M. Massie, the former president of the Monroe Park Conservancy, has been acquitted of assaulting a Virginia Commonwealth University student.

Cityscape: Richmond's oldest fire station

Richmond’s oldest fire station has a date with a wrecking ball after 114 years. This is Fire Station No. 12, which opened at 2223 W. Cary St. in 1908 when horses pulled the equipment to fires.

2 more GOP senators to back Judge Jackson for Supreme Court, nearly assuring confirmation

Republican U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mitt Romney of Utah say they will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic elevation to the U.S. Supreme Court, giving President Biden’s nominee a burst of bipartisan support and all …

He’s back, ready to win

Golf superstar Tiger Woods is back, and he says he believes he can win.

Discussion of Monument Avenue’s future set for April 5

What should happen on Monument Avenue and what have other cities done about their public monuments?

Training program for released convicts faces shutdown

Rodney Brown had just served a six-year sentence in prison in 2018 when he found his way to the nonprofit Adult Alternative Program at 4929 Chamberlayne Ave. in the city’s North Side.

Signs of the times

Six buildings on the University of Richmond’s campus are being cleansed of the names of slaveholders and champions of segregation, including a building named in honor of the university’s founding president, the Rev. Robert Ryland.