Six of the 13 people arrested at a pro-Palestinian protest at Virginia Commonwealth University are students.

Campus and state police cleared protesters from an area outside Virginia Commonwealth University's library in downtown Richmond.

Clean up your act or shut down. That's the message from the Environmental Protection Agency to power plants that use fossil fuels.

Virginia Tech Police say that they arrested 82 people late Sunday night and early Monday when they broke up a days-long protest on campus, and were charged with trespassing. 53 are current Virginia Tech students.

The EPA now requires water treatment plants to test for a group of contaminants known as "forever chemicals." Used in products like non-stick coatings and rain wear, these substances are water, grease and stain resistant, but they’re also hazardous to human health – linked to liver damage, cancer and birth defects. Getting them out of our water will be the next great challenge. A lab here in Virginia is working on technology to achieve that goal.

The Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 8-6 in the case involving coverage of gender-affirming care by North Carolina’s state employee health plan and the coverage of gender-affirming surgery by West Virginia Medicaid.

Virginia Tech police say they arrested 91 people Sunday night.

For two years the Affordable Connectivity Program has provided a $30 per month discount on internet service for several hundred thousand low income and elderly Virginians and millions more nationwide. The ACP has now ended and Congress is not renewing it. Tad Dickens covered the story for Cardinal News and talked about with Fred Echols.

The University of Virginia today opened a new building that will house the nation’s first School of Data Science, bankrolled by business school graduate Jafffray Woodriff.

A group of students, faculty and community members are gathered on Virginia Tech’s campus today. They’re joining students at campuses across the country who are protesting the war in Gaza.