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Suffolk’s proposed budget for 2025 keeps the citywide $1.09 real estate tax rate, but there are a few changes in store for the growing city.

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Aubrey Layne, a former Virginia Secretary of Finance, says a late state budget could hurt Virginia’s credit rating.

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Candice Walker has been selling her Natural Rock’N hair care products online and at craft shows for years. Here, she sees them on a store shelf for the first time at Bloom Market. (Photo by Ryan Murphy)

A new city-run storefront aims to propel local artisans into their own brick-and-mortar shops.

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The Coastal Virginia Conservancy has replaced polluted sediment with clean sand – including a layer of activated carbon, “like a sand sandwich.”

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The Virginia Institute of Marine Science recently studied stretches of extreme warming in the Bay, which can squeeze marine life out of viable habitat.

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“When people see our community fighting for issues,” says a former NAACP leader, “they don't recognize how valuable that fight can be for them as well.”

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The residential population of downtown Norfolk has tripled in the last decade as the pandemic reduced the commuter workforce. (Photo by C. Watts via Flickr)

The group unveiled its new strategic plan last week, marking a shift in priorities to serve full-time residents.

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An engineering professor at ODU says transportation officials should survey local waterways after the Francis Scott Key bridge collapse in Baltimore. 

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