Charlottesville VA

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) -Several organizations came together Sunday at the Cherry Avenue Boys & Girls Club to support the ninth annual toy drive, offering families a different way to prepare for the holidays. “This is an opportunity for us to give back to the community and help some families in...

An emerging story in 2026 will be whether usage of the municipal parking garages in Downtown Charlottesville will be affected by a transition to a system that requires users to give personal information over to a national corporation including access to a bank account in order to leave. On December...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Good morning. Bundle up. It’s a cold start to the work day. We’ll see partly sunny sky early, more clouds develop later this afternoon. Temperatures are expected to be slightly colder than normal. An approaching Clipper type system will spread cloudiness across the region, with limited...

NELSON COUNTY Va. (WFXR) – Virginia State Police (VSP) is investigating a fatal single-vehicle crash that occurred in Nelson County early on December 21. According to VSP, at 12:40 a.m., troopers responded to a crash on route 60/Richmond Highway. Troopers say the vehicle ran off the right side of the road and hit a...

A familiar face, Buzz Williams, will be making his second visit to John Paul Jones Arena in two years tonight, but this time with a different team. Williams is now the coach at Maryland (6-5), which will face No. 23 Virginia (9-1) this evening for a 6 p.m. tip (ESPN). Last year, Williams brought his Texas A&M squad...

Running through Christmas Eve, the trolley departs from downtown Crozet’s Square and travels to a holiday-themed North Pole stop.

When Coach Tony Elliott entered the media room in the bowels of Bank of America Stadium Dec. 6, he took the podium and prepared to field questions on the Cavaliers’ crushing loss to Duke in the ACC Championship game. It was, understandably, a lower energy affair. “It hurts,” Elliott...

Albemarle County is extending an offer to provide credit monitoring and other services to people who may have had their personal information stolen in a cybersecurity attack earlier this year. “On the morning of June 11, 2025, Albemarle County discovered issues with our IT systems and quickly determined that we...

The University paid more than $1.8 million to the law firm McGuireWoods LLP for legal services related to the Justice Department’s investigations, according to invoices sent between April and August 2025. The documents, which cover legal work performed between April and August, show extensive attorney activity billed...

As Albemarle continues to grow, the county continues to move forward with several smaller-scale infrastructure projects In October, the county asked firms to bid on work to make it safer for pedestrians in a section of the county’s southern urban area. “The project is generally described as a new...