Last week, Lynchburg celebrated the opening of an innovation center owned by the nuclear energy giant BWX Technologies.They hope to build a small reactor that could be mass produced and shipped almost anywhere. Speeches were inspiring – full of hope and promise, but some energy experts are skeptical when it comes to small, modular nuclear reactors.
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Governor Glenn Youngkin is now considering hundreds of actions from the General Assembly this week.
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Democrats who run the General Assembly and Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin agree that something needs to be done about the death toll from drug dealers who sell fatal doses of fentanyl. But they have different approaches to handling the problem.
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Republicans in the chamber often laughed at the attack during Wednesday's session.
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The Nansemond opened a medical clinic in 2023 and says the state seemingly messed up Medicaid billing.
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“We stand for life. And how can it ever be wrong to stand for life?” Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears said to the crowd.
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There’s a chapter in Virginia’s Indigenous history that’s been largely untold. This Saturday, historic Smithfield museum in Blacksburg is hosting an event to remember the Cherokee War of 1776, and descendants from both sides of the conflict will share their perspectives.
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The budget amendments, along with hundreds more, will be considered by the General Assembly this week as part of ongoing budget negotiations for a fiscal year that starts July 1st.
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Last year, Virginia’s parole board considered more than 2,600 cases, recording decisions day by day. The only way prisoners’ families or lawyers could find out what happened was to go, page by page, through the records. Now, students at UVA’s law school have fixed that— creating a database that will allow for specific searches and big-picture analysis of how the board works.
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The Associated Press is reporting thousands of employees within the U.S. Health and Human Services Department received layoff notices Tuesday. Some are with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which oversees health and safety for many workers, including coal miners.
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