Charlottesville VA

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Charlottesville City Schools expanded access to the Seal of Biliteracy, which recognizes multilingual students who have demonstrated foreign language proficiency through state-selected exams. The division now offers testing in more languages — including Dari, Pashto, Arabic and Swahili — t

GREENE COUNTY, Va. — Greene County Sheriff Steven Smith said his office will continue participating in the federal

In order to govern more effectively as a team, the Fredericksburg City School Board needs more opportunities to ask questions, sift through data, and “sit in a room together and just talk,” in the words of Gina Patterson, executive director of the Virginia School Boards Association. “I believe...

The City of Charlottesville owns the land around both the Ragged Mountain and South Rivanna River Reservoir and both are operated as natural areas with strict rules about how the trails are to be used. The Ivy Creek Foundation operates the 219-acre Ivy Creek Natural Area, but the City of...

ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) - Albemarle County police are examining how quickly officers respond to the most serious calls, after the county’s latest report showed a difference between urban and rural response times. The SPEAR report is part of the county’s five-year strategic plan and gives a numbers-based look...

No students were hurt, but a staff member suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, according to authorities.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Charlottesville Police will have an increased presence in the West Haven neighborhood following three shooting incidents there in the past week, CPD Chief of Police Michael Kochis told Cville Right Now on Wednesday. Police are investigating the possibility that at least two of t

There’s a bit of gallows humor you’ll hear around mushroom experts, and it goes something like this: Every mushroom is edible. Some only once. That pithy point could serve as the unofficial subtitle of the recently released The Claudius Project (University of Virginia, 2025), the final volume in a grimly informative tr

Police are on scene of a reported shooting at an elementary school in Virginia, local and federal officials said. The incident took place at Westwood Hills Elementary School in Waynesboro, Waynesboro Public Schools Assistant Superintendent Ryan Barber said. Waynesboro is a city in the state's Shenandoah Valley region,

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Virginia men’s lacrosse head coach Kevin Cassese announced on Tuesday (Sept. 1) the hiring of Bruce Pirie as the program’s director of operations. Pirie will assist with the Cavaliers’ travel logistics, program budget and planning, and execution of key events. Pirie brings more...