10+ hour, 21+ min ago   (1019+ words) Al Carr took small steps from his Lexington home’s back door, swaying a walking cane back and forth in front of him. The Meta Ray-Ban AI glasses he wore were doing a lot of work for him. A camera built…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (500+ words) Google’s annual environmental report lists the company’s water usage in two ways. There’s the conventional measure of how many million gallons per day, and then Google converts that into golf course equivalents. The point: Data centers are thirsty, but so…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (836+ words) Hello and welcome back to Danville Field Notes, a rundown of recent news in Danville and Pittsylvania County. In this week’s column, I’m including an overview of a comprehensive plan amendment in Pittsylvania County, which moves siting guidelines for solar…...

11+ hour, 17+ min ago   (585+ words) A former state corrections officer was sentenced Thursday to one year in prison stemming from the 2022 assault of an inmate at Wallens Ridge State Prison in Big Stone Gap. David McMurry, 52, pleaded guilty in June to a single misdemeanor charge…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (697+ words) Welcome back to Extra Credit, a weekly roundup of education-related news from across Southwest and Southside Virginia. Did you catch last week’s story about how some Virginia communities hope to fund school construction through a new 1% sales tax? I talked…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1026+ words) As students across Virginia return to class this month, thousands of them are again logging into the online education platform Canvas, despite a massive data breach earlier this year. In April, hackers breached Instructure, the company behind Canvas, which schools…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (254+ words) Buckingham has no data center. It has none proposed. It does not appear in the statewide inventory of these facilities on either count, in any status. Now the part people find hard to believe, which is that nobody in Virginia…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1922+ words) On Saturday, Lord Botetourt and 2025 Class 1 state runner-up Rye Cove meet at Emory & Henry University for the second year in a row. Lord Botetourt won the 2025 season opener 49-12. The VHSL season begins in earnest for most of the remainder of…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (338+ words) An investigation in Martinsville encompassing the entire city government is “trudging along,” as the Virginia State Police interviews witnesses and reviews financial records, said Gray Collins, the special prosecutor on the case. Collins — the Colonial Heights commonwealth’s attorney — and the…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1032+ words) The Virginia Board of Wildlife Resources voted 6-4 on Thursday to approve fee increases for hunting, fishing and trapping licenses for the first time in 14 years. License prices were raised by the maximum amount required by law — roughly $5 to $20 depending on…...