Building at Hickory Ridge Farm. (Credit: NWS)

The National Weather Service confirmed two separate tornados touched down in Virginia on Thursday. Pamela D’Angelo reports.

Congressman Don Beyer has proposed barring ICE officers from churches, schools and hospitals. (Credit: ICE)

With the federal government stepping up efforts to deport undocumented people, a Virginia congressman is proposing that long-time limits on where arrests can take place be put into law.  Sandy Hausman has that story.

UVA President Teresa Sullivan travels to India with a message: Your students are welcome in Virginia. (Credit: University of Virginia)

With the Trump Administration threatening big cuts in State Department spending, and the world still puzzling over who’s allowed to visit this country, some families are wondering if it’s a good idea for their kids to study at American universities.  The President of the University of Virginia thinks it is, and she will travel to India next  week to make that point. Sandy Hausman reports.

VCU students Jacob Davis and Eric Dueweke teach faculty and staff members how best to work with military veterans returning to school.

When it comes to military veterans, Virginia is number one with more vets per capita than any other state.  Because most qualify for educational benefits under the GI bill, many end up in college, but the transition isn’t always easy. Sandy Hausman reports on a program designed to ease former and reserve soldiers into life on campus.

Richmond has had the hottest housing market in the state this past year. (Credit: Taber Andrew Bain / Creative Commons)

It’s that time of year again. Property tax bills are arriving in mailboxes across Virginia. And, as Michael Pope reports, the value of homes in Virginia is going up this year — although some more than others.

Beverly Brown made sure her late sister’s book was published after a car crash in Richmond took historian Elizabeth Pryor’s life.

Two years ago, a 64-year-old woman was killed when a car speeding along Richmond’s Grove Avenue crashed into her silver sports car.  Historian Elizabeth Pryor was known for books about Robert E. Lee and Clara Barton – works she published before and after a 20-year career with the foreign service.  Shortly before her death she had finished another book, seven years in the making. Sandy Hausman spoke with her sister about that controversial new study of Abraham Lincoln.

VCU journalism students hang up their press credentials after a hectic few weeks covering Virginia’s legislature. (Credit: Virginia Commonwealth University)

Now that state lawmakers have wrapped up their business in Richmond, two dozen students at Virginia Commonwealth University are breathing a sigh of relief.  VCU is one of a handful of schools filling a huge gap created by shrinking budgets for state news coverage.  Sandy Hausman reports on this eager army of junior journalists.

The Neil Gorsuch Project is a collection of 860 decisions and dissents, speeches and publications. (Credit: UVA) 

Hearings begin today on the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, and the University of Virginia is doing its part to inform lawmakers and the public as Sandy Hausman reports.