The Justice Department wanted Ryan to step aside as part of a civil rights investigation over UVA’s diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

Augusta County residents expressed their displeasure with the board of supervisors for cancelling a pride day event during a meeting on Wednesday. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi talked to the board chair about the decision and filed this report.

When cleanup plans were set for the Chesapeake Bay watershed in 2014, the six states, including Virginia, and Washington D.C. set dozens of goals and preferred outcomes. Most expectations will not be met by the December deadline.Chesapeake Bay Program committees are currently reassessing plans and goals.

As Glenn Youngkin heads to Iowa to test the presidential waters, Radio IQ politics analyst Jeff Schapiro and Michael Pope consider the recent history of Virginia governors running for president.

It’s been more than a year since Virginia’s General Assembly voted to create an office that would investigate claims against the Department of Corrections. Since then, prisoner advocates report 18 cases in which inmates were beaten by guards and one in which a man died. The office of the ombudsman is now handling those and other complaints.

When heat waves hit, most people head for an air conditioned space, but what about wild animals. Are they at risk? And what can we do to help.

Employees with the National Science Foundation are being kicked out of their new building in Northern Virginia, and the future is uncertain for the agency.

The latest survey found just 18 ospreys living along the seaside of the peninsula.

“We came here to work and for a better life. We’re not delinquents,” the mother pleaded. “The land belongs to God. We’re all equal. We came here to work.”

Virginia's unemployment rate has been steadily increasing for the last five months. That's the first time Virginia has seen rising unemployment numbers for that long since the Great Recession almost 20 years ago.