Charlottesville VA

In a recent budget workshop, Madison County officials grappled with the rising costs of maintaining aging infrastructure and the widening deficit in the county’s waste disposal operations. The discussions, centered on the Fiscal Year 2027 Budget requests for Facilities & Maintenance and the Transfer Station,...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Unseasonably warm temperatures reaching June-like levels in the low 80s and breaking some records, prevailed Tuesday. These readings over 20 degrees above average for early March. Still warm and increasingly breezy Wednesday, ahead of an approaching, strong cold front. First Alert...

Sometimes the best things in life start small, and Smoked Kitchen & Tap in Crozet, Virginia proves that when you’ve got the goods, people will follow you anywhere, even from a parking lot to a permanent address. What began as a humble food truck serving up seriously good barbecue...

AFTON, Va. (WVIR) - UPDATE: Several brushfires have sparked in western Albemarle County near Route 250 and Interstate 64. The I-64 eastbound right lane is closed as crews tackle the fires. The partial closure has caused backups more than three miles long on the interstate. A portion of Route 250...

Virginia wine has earned increasing recognition in recent years, but its reputation has not always traveled as far or as well as its best bottles deserve. Within the state, great wines have inspired loyalty, pride, and serious respect. Elsewhere, they are still too often received as a curiosity or a pleasant surprise.

A woman under investigation by the Staunton Police Department is facing multiple charges after two young children tested positive for methamphetamine and marijuana, according to police. In January, Child Protective Services notified the police department about a Staunton woman who’d reportedly left the drugs "within...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - DISH Network customers could lose access to WVIR Tuesday, March 10 at 7 p.m. unless a renewal agreement is reached soon. If an agreement is not reached DISH will pull WVIR from its lineup Tuesday evening. This means DISH customers will no longer have access to 29News.

ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) - Albemarle County Public Schools is seeing a rise in student absences and illness, with 15 schools in the district reporting attendance rates below 90% over the past week. “What we track is what is our absentee rate in our attendance rate, and so whenever it...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello will present Pen to Paper: The Civic Gospel of the Declaration of Independence on Saturday, May 2, 2026, on Monticello’s West Lawn. The program commemorates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and is presented in partnership with Virginia’s...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) — The Charlottesville-Albemarle SPCA and Spitfire Tattoo for a two-day flash tattoo fundraiser. The event, hosted at the local tattoo parlor, will allow participants to receive an exclusive, pet-themed tattoo, with 100% of all proceeds going toward the animal shelter. The...