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Jae C. Hong/APVolunteer fire and EMS agencies across the U.S. are struggling to recruit and retain volunteers. The Botetourt County Department of Fire & EMS is no stranger to that struggle, so officials there are trying something new. -
NPRDemocrats and Republicans now have their candidates heading into a summertime special election to fill the seat vacated by the late Congressman Gerry Connolly.
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University of Virginia President Jim Ryan has resigned under pressure from the Justice Department over claims he did not fully dismantle programs promoting diversity, equity and inclusion on campus. -
More than 200 people gathered in Charlottesville’s downtown mall Thursday night to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policies. WMRA’s Calvin Pynn reports. -
“There’s been a lot of speculation in the media, I think erroneously, I think irresponsibly, that somehow indicated my mother was not legally allowed to be in this country," Attorney General Jason Miyares told Radio IQ. -
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.
