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12/07/2025

Happening Tuesday: “The Nikki Giovanni Immersive Experience” features motion graphics and music accompany the voice of Giovanni reading her poems from different stages of her life.

The voice of one of Virginia’s most loved and outspoken poets, Nikki Giovanni, is featured in a new multimedia art exhibit at Virginia Tech.

12/06/2025

Since 2020, 27 homes have collapsed along the Outer Banks, all of them unoccupied, as strong waves from storms and rising waters eat away at the shoreline.

Proposed legislation would allow the National Flood Insurance Program to fund dismantling or relocating at-risk coastal structures.

12/06/2025

The new Met Opera season begins today on WVTF Music! Tune in at 1:00 and check out the schedule of performances ⬇

The Robert K. Johnson Foundation-Metropolitan Opera season airs Saturdays at 1:00 pm (unless otherwise noted) on WVTF Music.

12/06/2025

Historian Nina Brown hopes the statue will be an inspiration for the community.

“Not only the story of a very brave Black woman’s escape from enslavement, it’s also a story of liberation. This is something universal.”

The first African slaves came to this country in 1609, and Virginia would become the center of bo***ge. By the 1850’s, eight to ten-thousand people were auctioned in Richmond each year. One of those sold into slavery at the age of 12 was a young woman named Mary Ann. This fall, a statue of her was...

12/05/2025

Virginia and other states in the region signed onto the most recent agreement in 2014.
This week’s update follows more than a year of negotiations between environmental groups, academics, government agencies and local officials about what should come next.

Environmental groups said the update falls short on several targets, but is critical to moving forward with a shared vision.

12/04/2025

❄️Our first significant winter weather event of the season is coming tonight. How much snow should we expect?
Here are some helpful graphics from the National Weather Service offices that cover most of the Radio IQ listening area.
Stay safe!❄️

12/04/2025

Multiple news organizations report the suspect is from Northern Virginia.

The FBI has spent years searching for the person who put bombs near the Democratic and Republican committee headquarters, hours before the assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

12/03/2025

With the weather getting colder, many of us are likely spending more time indoors, and some people turn to humidifiers to keep the air we breathe less dry.
But if you’re not using humidifiers correctly, you may be breathing in toxic minerals, according to an expert from Virginia Tech.

If you’re not using humidifiers correctly, you may be breathing in toxic minerals, according to Andrea Dietrich, professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech.

12/03/2025

For now, details include: 350 retail licensees, similar to the 402 ABC stores across the state. Anti-monopoly rules will limit any one person to a max of five licenses. Products will be taxed at about 12%.

Much of the new legal w**d market legislation is based on efforts previously vetoed by outgoing Governor Glenn Youngkin.

12/02/2025

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12/02/2025

Tensions between Virginia’s Democrat-led Senate and leadership at the University of Virginia were front and center, as the school’s interim president fielded questions about the agreement he signed with the U.S. Department of Justice.

“Waiting for enforcement and litigation would have been devastating,” UVa interim President Mahoney said.