Charlottesville VA

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Charlottesville’s Legal Aid Justice Center is calling on the state government to help close the achievement gap among English Language Learners, students whose native language is not English in Virginia’s K-12 schools. The legal nonprofit has published a comprehensive report examining...

HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - A pair of Harrisonburg residents were sentenced to more than a decade each in federal prison after providing fentanyl-laced pills that killed an 18-year-old in northern Virginia in early 2023. According to court documents, in January 2023, 18-year-old Cayden Foster, a high school student in...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - A 41-year-old hospice patient got his wish Thursday, December 18, when Hospice of the Piedmont and Stonewall Harley-Davidson helped arrange for him to ride a motorcycle one more time. Kevin Olague, a patient with Hospice of the Piedmont, had one simple request: to feel the road...

ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) - UPDATE: Lanes were reopened as of 3 p.m., according to Albemarle Police, but there could be residual delays. A crash involving an overturned tractor trailer closed southbound lanes on US 29 around Dickerson lane on Thursday afternoon, December 18. Lanes remained closed as of 1:35...

ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) - Albemarle County Public Schools and the Albemarle Education Association have reached a tentative collective bargaining agreement. This comes after several months of contract negotiations. The tentative agreement contains benefits such as paid parental leave and expanded planning time...

ELKTON, Va. (WHSV) - The grand opening of a new Pilates and yoga studio called Mountain Movement and Mindset will be happening in Elkton this weekend, hoping to make fitness more accessible to everyone.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Charlottesville will not continue using Flock cameras now that the pilot program has expired, City Manager Sam Sanders announced. The decision comes after months of concern from city council about data privacy and how information collected by police could be accessed or shared beyond...

Dr. Eric Lowe, chair of the EVMS/ODU Department of Pediatrics and CHKD’s Chief Clinical Academic Officer, is denouncing the recent hepatitis B vaccine changes.

AUGUSTA COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) - Virginia State Police is investigating after an attempted arrest by Augusta County authorities took a violent turn Wednesday night, ending with a deputy wounded by gunfire and the suspect being killed. The shooting happened on the 800 block of Parkersburg Turnpike about two miles west...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – The Charlottesville Police Department charged 18-year-old Albemarle County resident Nasir Dashawn Walker with two counts of attempted malicious wounding and one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon for his role in a September shooting incident in the 1000...