Urban heat islands become dangerous when temperatures rise.
Spotlight on VPM Original Content
Virginia News
NPR News
Virginia News
-
Virginia’s former vaccination czar appears to have carried the vote in six districts.
-
71% of Albemarle County's registered voters showed up to the polls.
-
The Associated Press called the race at 11:22 p.m. Tuesday. Republican Hung Cao has not conceded.
-
Nearly all the congressional races were called before midnight.
-
Harris voters emphasized health care issues; Trump voters focused on the economy.
-
NPR News
-
Sophie and Colin Hortman remember their parents, Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman, as "the bright lights at the center of our lives." The couple was murdered in their home last weekend.
-
A money-obsessed NYC matchmaker is wooed by a financial investor and a cater waiter in a romantic drama that has its protagonist finding strength and emotional growth via a side character's suffering.
-
The suspect in the killing of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband texted, "Dad went to war last night,' evoking the language of the far right, Christian anti-abortion movement.
-
There's a specific kind of math that could determine just how much longer the war can go — how many long-range missiles Iran has versus how many missile interceptors Israel has to shoot them down.
-
Journalists who have risked their freedom to report for Voice of America and its sister news outlets wonder what happens to them now that the Trump administration has gutted their parent agency.
Arts & Culture
- Shooting fireworks over a historic— and flammable — city takes planning
- Geologists uncover new evidence from ancient asteroid that hit the Chesapeake Bay
- Recent Hanover museum exhibit examines Brown Grove's history, legacy
- On Juneteenth, she celebrates the role quilts may have played in Underground Railroad