Public meeting highlights in Central Virginia for the week beginning June 30.

Supervisor Tyrone Nelson hosted a meeting with state environment officials.

Take a look at this week's top VPM News stories.

Virginia Democrats — several of them UVA alums — publicly condemned the decision.

Virginia has not allowed discretionary parole in 30 years.

The Justice Department has been investigating UVA over its diversity practices.

As the 900-mile East African Crude Oil Pipeline project takes shape in Uganda, there is the promise of economic benefit. But it's shaking up the lives of some 100,000 people.

The dollar has just posted its worst first-half of a year since 1973. And now investors wonder — is it a sign that America is losing its financial standing?

A few days after her sister died, Maureen was on the subway when a stranger asked how she was doing. The conversation that followed is one that she will forever cherish.

The venture, privately funded to start, is now run by the University of Arizona. And today, scientists there are quietly plugging away at research they hope will help us all adapt to the Biosphere 1 — that is Earth, and the climate change we are causing to it.

Since the war in Gaza began in October 2023, members of the Park Slope Food co-op have been debating whether to ban Israeli goods from the shelves.