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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has confirmed they conducted an arrest operation in the Ruckersville area last week, just before state law restrictions on their partnerships with local law enforcement agencies go into effect. On Tuesday, June 23rd, ICE officers and local law enforcement partners arrested 49 pe

If you're looking to celebrate America's 250th anniversary, the obvious choice is to return to where the Founding Fathers celebrated that very first year. From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, and James Madison, four out of the first five U.S. Presidents called the Old Dominion home. And, across...

GORDONSVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Organizers postponed the 2026 Gordonsville Independence Day Parade, which was scheduled for Saturday, July 4, at 9 a.m. on Main Street, due to forecast extreme heat conditions. Parade planner Jill Grant announced the decision on Facebook, citing temperatures expected to exceed 100 degrees and

Pantops is one of three areas Albemarle planners hope to grow as an “activity center” as part of the county’s ongoing management strategy to avoid expansion of the growth areas. A new group has become one of the stakeholders. One of Albemarle’s many private religious schools paid...

LOUISA COUNTY, Va. (WWBT) - Community meetings hosted by Valley Link over a proposed $1 billion transmission line project are drawing hundreds of residents concerned about the line’s impact on their properties and communities, as the company moves closer to finalizing routes. The project would run from Campbell County.

The next generation of medicine won’t be built around treating disease after it appears. It will be built around understanding precisely how disease develops — and predicting its course to enable precise interventions before it becomes irreversible. That vision united researchers from Virginia Tech, the University of V

With the holiday weekend on the horizon, Charlottesville is expected to cross the triple-digit temperature threshold for the first time this year. In anticipation of what’s likely to be a scorching summer, the city has announced that several cooling centers will be available for anyone looking to escape the extreme hea

Local county governments in Greene, Madison, and Orange counties announced Tuesday that cooling centers will be available on Wednesday and Thursday for those residents who need a place to cool off.  The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a Heat Advisory (heat index values up to 106 degrees Fahrenheit) for Wednes

HARRISONBURG, VA (Rocktown Now) – It appears that former Turner Ashby High School choir director Wesley Dunlap must pay $225,000 to a former student. According to a court order filed Monday in U-S District Court in Harrisonburg, Dunlap and the student, only identified as John Doe, agreed to a settlement back on Februar

The Greene County Sheriff’s Office, working with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, conducted a large-scale immigration enforcement operation near the intersection of routes 29 and 33 in Ruckersville on June 23. An ICE spokesperson said the operation detained 49 people. “I just saw them pull someone over right n