Charlottesville VA

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - James Monroe’s Highland will host its fifth annual Descendants Day on Saturday, June 6, bringing together descendants, community members, historians, and visitors to reflect on the lives and legacies of the people who were enslaved at the historic site. The free event will take place...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - A new community event focused on fitness, music, and youth programs is coming to Charlottesville this weekend. The Walk Party and Parade Fitness Festival is scheduled for Saturday from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Charlottesville High School track. The free event will feature a community...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Bama Works has announced its grant award winners for the 2026 spring cycle, pledging roughly $900,000 to nonprofits across Central Virginia. The philanthropic organization, launched by Charlottesville native Dave Matthews and his bandmates, provides these grants twice per year, as part of

U.Va. Health Plastic Surgery Pantops opened early May, moving aesthetic plastic surgery services from the University Hospital Grounds to a new clinic in Albemarle County. The clinic provides a range of aesthetic and cosmetic procedures to patients across Central Virginia including facelifts, rhinoplasties and lipedema

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - The University of Virginia announced a $43 million gift from alumni David and Kathy LaCross to establish an early learning center in Charlottesville. The center will provide education and developmental services for children up to age 5 while giving UVA students hands-on training in the cla

Richard Hall, a man from Virginia’s Albemarle County, was killed in action June 6, 1944 at Omaha Beach, seen here, in America's D-Day invasion. (Photo by Jim Spencer/Virginia Mercury) NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY, COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, FRANCE- Richard Powhatan Hall’s grave sits nine rows into the vast final resting place o

ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) - Traffic on Route 29 south of Charlottesville is moving again after an overturned tractor-trailer shut down northbound lanes in Albemarle County for several hours Friday morning, June 5. According to Albemarle County Police Department, the crash happened shortly after 8 a.m. near the inter

I came upon a most interesting deed in Nelson County in which William Y. Linton sold thirteen and a half acres of land to Gethsemani Abbey. Both William and his brother Moses Linton owned land adjacent to the abbey as seen in the photo below. This large photo hangs in the Visitors Center of Gethsemani Abbey.

LOVINGSTON, Va. (WSET) — Nelson County has acquired approximately 683 acres of land along the Route 29 corridor south of Lovingston in a move county leaders say will preserve local control over a key property identified for future economic development opportunities. The county completed the purchase through a pre-aucti

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – As expected, the five days of rain in late May improved the latest U.S. Drought Monitor in parts of the Valley, southern Virginia, and Tidewater, but it did not move the needle much in the Albemarle County and Charlottesville area. Before the rain,...