Amherst New Era-Progress

07/19/2025

With uncertainty gripping the future of the Old Dominion Job Corps Center after the U.S. Department of Labor recently said it was pausing the program due to federal budget cuts, the Amherst County Board of Supervisors approved a resolution Tuesday expressing support for the Monroe-based center and urging continued funding for its survival.

With uncertainty gripping the future of the Old Dominion Job Corps Center after the U.S. Department of Labor recently said it was pausing the program due to federal budget cuts, the Amherst County Board of Supervisors approved a resolution Tuesday expressing support for the Monroe-based center and u...

07/19/2025

Sweet Briar College has raised $18.7 million for the 2024-25 fiscal year, it said in a news release Thursday.

07/19/2025

Back from a gathering of Iowa Republicans eager to hear how he won office in state that’s been leaning Democratic, Gov. Glenn Youngkin says it’s not too late for Winsome Earle-Sears to be the next governor of Virginia.

07/18/2025

UVa Medical Center CEO Wendy Horton is leaving. Her exit means the UVa Health System has lost all three of its top execs in less than five months.

07/18/2025

Mountain bikers in downtown Roanoke chase USA Cycling championships.

07/18/2025

In a shakeup in Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears’ bid to be Virginia's next governor, her campaign manager has lost his post.

07/18/2025

UVa students will return to Grounds in Charlottesville in less than six weeks. It is unclear if the university will have a new president by then.

07/18/2025

The first time President Donald Trump took office, Gabe Morgan was a decade into his role as Newport News sheriff and leading the Virginia Sheriff’s Association. It was his job

07/18/2025

A helicopter crew out of Chesterfield County rescued an injured hiker from Old Rag Mountain in Shenandoah National Park Wednesday.

07/18/2025

Virginia government employees working in the James Monroe Building will move to about a dozen different office spaces downtown and outside Richmond.

07/18/2025

Framatome cut the ribbon on its newly expanded Mill Ridge Road facility — part of a $50 million investment bringing 500 new jobs to the area. Gov. Youngkin called it a “bold commitment to Virginia’s energy future.”

07/18/2025

BWXT announced Thursday the award of U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program contracts totaling about $2.6 billion, including future year options, for manufacturing naval nuclear reactor components.