Charlottesville VA

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – A vote has been tabled until further notice, but several people asked City Council to not approve spending for proposed changes at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. According to a statement from Afton Schneider, the city’s communications director, Superintendent...

Charlottesville’s new zoning code intentionally reduces the role that elected and appointed bodies play in deciding whether multifamily buildings can be built on land that formerly could only contain one residential unit. However, there are still government venues where neighbors can voice their objections. That’s...

The budget adopted by the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors in May includes the first real estate tax rate increase for several years. Eighty-percent of revenue from the four cent hike will go toward public safety. A report on grant activity between January 1 and March 31 offers details about...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - The City of Charlottesville is reaching its hand into its back-up savings. The city reports to have around $30 million sitting idly in the Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Contingency Fund. A lot of that money stems the $22 million budget surplus leftover from the FY24 Budget.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Buford Middle School bid farewell to truckloads of furniture. With the school year over and construction started on Buford Middle School’s renovations, the school had lots of old desks, chairs, and bookshelves to get rid of. That is when it decided to send them to...

Years of development in Virginia’s Piedmont region have transformed the landscape with roads and other types of impervious surface. Over time that has had the effect of creating more stormwater and speeding up the velocity of area waterways. Over the decades, the cumulative effect has resulted in streams that...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) The Charlottesville City Council delayed a vote on funding the proposed $49 million Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail renovation project after initial contractor bids came in over budget. Vice Mayor Brian Pinkston, who also serves as vice chair of the jail authority board,...

HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - As Medicare Fraud Prevention Week kicks off, local advocates are warning older adults to be cautious of common scams targeting beneficiaries across the Valley.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Good morning. It’s a pleasant start to the work and school day. We’ll see hazy sunshine, (from Canadian wildfires), and warmer temperatures this afternoon. A southwest wind will warm temperatures into the low 80s. This warming trend will send temperatures into the 90s later this week,...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) Each of Albemarle County’s three high schools will have a dedicated school resource officer assigned to it during the upcoming school year, according to an email sent to families last week. What that police officer’s role and responsibilities will be is yet to be determined,...