Richmond Public Schools will reopen Sept. 8 under the inescapable cloud of the COVID-19 delta variant, with officials announcing that students, teachers and staff will be required to wear masks in schools and on buses regardless of their vaccination status.

Free community testing for COVID-19 continues.

How about $50 million?

More than 300 homeless men, women and children will continue to stay in motels in South Side after Saturday, July 31, rather than being discharged to the streets as some feared would happen.

“How would you spend $77 million on your city?”

Move it to Capitol Square. That’s where supporters of the Richmond Police Memorial statue want it to go.

It has been a soup kitchen and a shelter for the homeless during the winter.

The Richmond-based fair housing watchdog Housing Opportunities Made Equal is undergoing a leadership change.

Virginia State University is hosting its annual Agriculture Field Day at Randolph Farm, its 416-acre research farm in Petersburg, from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. Friday, July 30.

Richmond faces many challenges, but one of the biggest and most expensive lies underground in the sewer system.

A regional grand jury vested with sweeping powers to investigate and issue indictments appears to have been exempted from the push to ensure racial equity in criminal justice.

Free community testing for COVID-19 continues.

The City of Richmond apparently never has owned one of the Confederate monuments it is trying to get rid of, and that could add a new complication to its removal.

Just weeks before more than 1,500 of Richmond’s public housing residents were facing losing their homes, the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority has extended its eviction moratorium to September, but not beyond Oct. 31.

Homeless residents of a small tent city outside the vacant Richmond Coliseum received a final notice to move before a 12-foot fence blocking access is completed. The fence is being installed as a squad of city workers prepare to salvage …