
Tidal flooding in Norfolk. (Image: Jonah Grinkewitz)
ODU, Chesapeake Bay Foundation partner to help Virginia communities adapt to climate change Local News
“The challenges that are presented by climate change and in particular sea level rise and increased inland flooding, they’re going to be with us for the foreseeable future,” said Jay Ford with the Bay Foundation. “So it’s incumbent on us to help our communities adapt in a way that allows us to better live with the water.”
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Dipping temperatures have “slowed the growth down and probably left a lot of the plants and the landscape confused,” said Jayesh Samtani with the Hampton Roads Agricultural Research and Extension Center.
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The Hampton Roads Black Caucus is expanding its regional firearm collection events into Chesapeake.
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Even as new school shootings draw focus, much of the work being done to increase student safety isn’t coming from Richmond. It’s happening on college campuses.
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From her own hospice bed, a Virginia Beach woman plans the city’s first independent hospice facility Local News
Terry Jenkins has spent the last few years organizing the nonprofit board raising money to build a hospice house in Virginia Beach. Now in hospice herself, she’s still focused on expanding hospice capacity in Hampton Roads.
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Hampton University testing "paradigm-shifting" cancer treatment technology at Proton Therapy Institute Local News
Over the next three years, the institute will test a new machine that officials hope can dramatically cut the cost of proton therapy.
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Lil Uzi Vert, Wu-Tang Clan among big names for Something in the Water festival in Virginia Beach Local News
The Pharrell Williams-organized festival announced a star-studded lineup Wednesday for the event's return to the Oceanfront.
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The program stopped taking new requests for assistance in February to clear a 200-case backlog – but it will start accepting new applications, with new guidelines, in April.
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