Charlottesville VA

A Scottsville man is charged with three felonies in connection with a shooting in Buckingham County Thursday. Marcos Alejandro Albay was arrested by Buckingham County Sheriff’s deputies, with assistance from […]

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Virginia Department of Corrections K9s Aika, Black Jack, Chase, Chica, and Fika now have protective vests thanks to a charitable donation from non-profit organization Vested Interest in K9s, Inc. The potentially lifesaving body armor protects K9s from bullet and stab injuries....

HARRISONBURG VA: (Rocktown Now) – A 28-year-old JMU student died late Thursday night after an accidental cooking fire broke out in their apartment. In a campus wide announcement, James Madison University stated at Senior Lorenzo Isaiah Gibbs died due to cardiac arrest after an accidental kitchen fire in his Squire...

Carrie Heilman, an integral part of the University of Virginia community as a professor and faculty representative, has died after a battle with Cancer. Archive photo via University of Virginia. Carrie Heilman, the University of Virginia Faculty Athletics Representative and mother to Olympian Thomas Heilman, has died...

A person is hurt and multiple families are without homes after a fire in Albemarle County on Thursday.

The “Visions of Progress: Portraits of Dignity, Style and Racial Uplift” exhibit — on display at the local Trinity Episcopal Church until March 11 — features a series of portraits capturing African American Charlottesville residents from the 1920s. According to John Edwin Mason, curator of the exhibit and professor...

When the Lark on Main building opened in 2016, one of the first tenants was Hardywood Craft Brewery of Richmond. They set up shop in a 4,254 square foot space highly visible to passerby on West Main Street. However, the brewery closed within two and a half years and the...

STAUNTON, Va. (WHSV) - A Waynesboro man and former employee of Liberty Point Behavioral Healthcare, a mental health facility in Staunton, was sentenced in Staunton Circuit Court on Monday. Joseph Turner was arrested and charged ack in November 2025 with one count of taking indecent liberties with a child by...

For many first-year students, arriving on Grounds can feel like stepping into an entirely new world. Lecture halls are larger, expectations seem higher and forming new friendships can feel daunting. For Black women at the University — a predominately white institution — this transition can come with an added layer of...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - UVA Health’s University Medical Center has been ranked No. 1 in the state of Virginia. The rankings came from Newsweek’s World’s Best Hospitals 2026 list. UVA received a 70.77%, and was ranked 52nd in the U.S. “I think it’s our team, all the...