Urban heat islands become dangerous when temperatures rise.
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Virginia News
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Negotiations for LiUNA's first RPS contract began in late 2023.
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A one-time grant from NextUp RVA makes this year’s summer camp free for RPS students.
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He was convicted of a prostitution-related offense but acquitted on the most serious charges at his New York trial.
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Mountain Lake and Lake Drummond were created in very different ways.
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More oversight could be in the cards for the city’s water customers.
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Updated: The legislation could force more than 300,000 Virginians off their insurance.
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Heat and wildfire smoke affect birth outcomes, according to a new study of women in Los Angeles.
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Search and rescue efforts continue in Central Texas where flash flooding has left at least dozens of people dead.
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The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented in 1946, was found last year in an upstate New York basement.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he wants the luxury resort on the eastern seacoast to become a "world destination," but the country has been reluctant to allow in foreign tourists.
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The Prince and Princess of Wales will join the King and Queen in granting Royal Warrants — a sort of "seal of approval" — on certain goods and services.
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