The raises follow several years of tuition freezes at public colleges supported by state funding.

The effort to preserve Virginia’s agricultural and forested land will get a streamlined process of protection from future development, following legislation that will become a law later this year.

Virginia will become one of the few state-backed registries that collects data on patients with dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders, in order to improve brain health and caregiving.

With 400 to 600 sailors passing through each day, the galley becomes a lab for healthy eating.