“I think we need to take a pause here in Virginia,” Petersburg Democratic Senator Lashrecse Aird said.

Pickleball has exploded in popularity in recent years, attracting people for its friendliness and accessibility. And the number one player over 50, lives in Roanoke.

Recommendations in the report included the improvement of “living conditions for long-term incarceration,” health education, the expansion of addiction treatment services and addressing staffing issues.

This fall, Virginia voters will consider three constitutional amendments, and one of them involves the restoration of voting rights to former felons.

For more than a decade, Virginia’s hosted the Supernova Ska Festival, an event that each year pulls in dozens of performers adhering to the genre’s 1960s origins, as well as newer acts inclined to incorporate punky elements into their work.

Prescriptions for estrogen patches, which ease menopause symptoms, more than tripled in the last eight years. Now there’s a shortage that’s left patients heated and providers scrambling.

For decades, Poage Farm stood out along U.S. 221 as a working farm, marking the region's agricultural history even as the area around it grew into an outskirt of the Roanoke metro area. But these days, the farm and its historic buildings are gone, scraped down to bare earth.

The Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine is renovating and expanding its teaching hospital in Blacksburg. The hospital will remain open during construction.

Parenting is a tough job – especially if you’re also facing cultural or financial barriers, but a non-profit in Charlottesville has been helping families for the last 35 years and recently launched a new campaign called One Tired Mother to provide support.

Demographic shifts and lower birth rates have left school divisions in all parts of Virginia with lower enrollment numbers. The trend is especially strong in Southwest Virginia, where many counties have lost population with the decline of coal mining.When one of Buchanan County’s four small high schools was destroyed by a flood, county leaders decided it was time to go in a new direction. Cardinal News reporter Meghan Mangrum is covering the story, and she spoke with Fred Echols.