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The VPM Daily Newscast contains all your Central Virginia news in just 5 to 10 minutes. Episodes are recorded the night before.

A Richmond-based pharmaceutical company is focused on making affordable drugs in central Virginia. The founder hopes the area will become the “epicenter” for advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Researchers, advocates and those living with food allergies speak about the challenges.

Could a new treatment for patients at risk of Type 1 diabetes revolutionize how doctors manage the disease?

The Health Wagon refers to a program of seven mobile clinics that treat more than 10,000 patients in a single year. The organization holds an annual volunteer drive at a fairground in Wise County to provide access to health care to thousands in the region, and recently restarted that program for the first time since the pandemic.

For more than two decades, the free events have offered care to underserved people in the commonwealth.

Herman Harrison is 95-years old and still lives in the same Franklin County home where his mom was born in 1889.He shares his story of growing up and going to school in Franklin County.

Richmond, Virginia, was notorious for a record number of murders in the 1990’s. Project Exile aimed to slow gun violence.

The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe. What that could mean for future laws preventing women from having abortions based on genetic abnormalities.

From the inception of Virginia as a colony, tobacco has been essential to the history of the Commonwealth. It's also been infamous in our past as a huge cash crop and a key element of the slave trade. Today, tobacco remains prominent across the nation in gas stations and supermarkets and has evolved into new forms, such as e-cigarettes and vapes.