Charlottesville VA

The warm morning sun leaks through the front window at 5 a.m., illuminating the kitchen — and the heart — of Cou Cou Rachou. The kitchen stirs to life as the bakers greet each other, busying their hands with preparing the day’s pastries as they catch each other up with what is new in their lives.

Sometimes the best meals in life come from places that look like they might blow away in a strong wind. The Barbeque Exchange in Gordonsville, Virginia is proof that you should never judge a restaurant by its exterior, because inside this unassuming white building sits some of the most spectacular smoked meat you’ll ever wrap your lips around.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) — UVA Health and the Albemarle County Police Department will be holding separate drug take-back events this weekend as part of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. The semiannual event, held both in the spring and fall, aims to...

What better time to host a ribbon cutting for a new business than to do it a year later.  That was the scene Friday morning when Mugs and Muffins co-owners Dawn Rowland and Desiree “Dex” Saucerman hosted Madison County Chamber of Commerce at their N. Main Street coffee shop and eatery.  Family, friends, and customers showed up for the celebration at 1494 N...

As the school year nears its end, more teachers are looking at returning to their same classroom in the fall.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Arbor Day is often associated with planting new trees, but in Charlottesville, the work does not stop once they are in the ground. Van Yahres Tree Company, in partnership with ReLeaf Cville, is revisiting trees already planted across the Woolen Mills neighborhood, making sure they continue to grow and stay healthy.

ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) - An Albemarle 17-year-old is behind bars and faces five charges connected to a drive-by shooting on Solomon Road in December of 2024. According to an Albemarle County Police Department news release, officers arrest the teen on Friday, April 24, and charged him with attempted malicious wounding, gang participation and three gun crimes. No one was hurt in...

AUGUSTA COUNTY, Va. (WHSV) - The Augusta County Sheriff’s Office said a Waynesboro man is in custody after a pursuit and search warrant execution earlier this month. On April 17, an ACSO deputy attempted to serve 33-year-old Brandon William Fitzner numerous probation violation warrants out of Madison County. While doing so, Fitzner had exited through a window, got into a vehicle, and fled...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – A 24-year-old man wanted in connection with last week’s shooting on Old Preston Ave. is still at-large and the Charlottesville Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance in locating him. Kevin Desjuan Anderson is wanted on two counts of malicious...

GROTTOES, VA (Rocktown Now) — Firefighters battled a significant house fire Thursday in a wooded area of Augusta County. Division Chief Colten Lotts said- that, around 1pm, units were dispatched on reports of a heavy column of smoke on the 300-block of Paine Run Road in Grottoes. “When the...