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Dominion Prepares Next Transmission Line Project: Morrisville to Wishing Star
Community members last week had the chance to provide feedback on Dominion Energy’s next transmission line project – a 36.5-mile-long route across three counties. The Morrisville to Wishing Star line will feature 500 and 230 kilovolt lines running north through Fauquier, Prince William and Loudoun counties. Less than five of the miles will be built in Loudoun. The project is designed to improve reliability for the region, according to Dominion Energy. While some of the exact routes are still being determined, according to Dominion Representative Porlan Cunningham, the majority of the line and new infrastructure will be built in Fauquier and Prince William counties ...
Trump’s pardons highlight Justice Department’s pullback from public corruption cases
The government's evidence against Scott Jenkins was compelling, including undercover video and other corroboration showing Jenkins, then the sheriff of Culpeper County, Virginia, accepting over $75,000 in exchange for giving law enforcement authority to local businessmen, as well as two undercover FBI special agents. Jenkins’ co-defendants all pleaded guilty, and jurors didn't take long to convict Jenkins last year, deliberating for around two hours before they found him guilty on all counts. When Jenkins was sentenced to 10 years in prison in March, the acting U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia said he "violated his oath of office and the faith the citizens of Culpeper County placed in him when he engaged in a cash-for-badges scheme."
Far-right speaker banned from USS Liberty reunion at Norfolk Sheraton
A far-right public figure named Stew Peters, known for making social media posts promoting antisemitism and white nationalism, has been banned from the Sheraton Norfolk Waterside Hotel where he was slated to speak at the USS Liberty Veterans Association (LVA) reunion next month, an LVA boardmember confirmed to WTKR News 3 Tuesday. John Dixon with LVA shared the following with News 3: “The hotel owner Marriott-Bonvoy has banned Stew Peters from entering their property and has advised us he is not to speak.” Shortly after, the hotel also confirmed to WTKR News 3 that they have banned Peters.
Marine heat waves in Chesapeake Bay doubled over past two decades, according to new research
The temperature of water in the Chesapeake Bay naturally fluctuates each year, tied to weather patterns and ecosystem changes across the bay’s massive, 64,000-square-mile watershed. But a new study led by the University of Maryland is yet another confirmation of what scientists have reported for years: The bay is steadily warming and seeing a growing number of extreme heat incidents known as marine heat waves. The frequency of underwater heat waves in the bay doubled over the past 20 years, researchers say in the paper published this week in a scientific journal called Estuaries and Coasts.
Hope is the thing on the overpass: Protesters in Woodstock keep returning to be seen and heard
In 1984, Kurt Weitz took an oath to defend the Constitution as a U.S. Army officer. In 2025, he stands on an overpass above Interstate 81, gripping a Canadian flag. Below him, cars rush past in a current he knows won’t shift easily. He’s one of dozens, sometimes hundreds, who have gathered each Saturday on this bridge in Woodstock for the past 10 weeks — signs in hand, flags in the wind — protesting what they see as a growing threat to American democracy.
Richmond’s second water crisis in 5 months
Across Richmond, the collective sentiment Tuesday afternoon seemed to be the same: “Here we go again.” What early Tuesday morning had started as an ostensibly minor issue with the city’s water treatment plant rapidly devolved into Richmond’s second full-blown water crisis in fewer than five months.
New boil water advisory issued in Richmond, months after January water crisis
Richmond officials issued a new boil water advisory Tuesday for large swaths of the city, less than six months after a catastrophic water crisis left much of the region without safe drinking water for days. “People can use the water,” Avula said. “They just need to boil it before they drink it,” Mayor Danny Avula said in a virtual press conference Tuesday afternoon, adding that the city doesn’t currently have plans to distribute bottled water.
Chesterfield one step closer to hosting world’s first commercial nuclear fusion plant
A zoning application has been filed in Chesterfield County for what could be the world’s first commercial nuclear fusion power plant. ... The application was submitted under a conditional use permit (CUP), which outlines the development of a 94-acre parcel of land within the James River Industrial Center.
Virginia Beach School Board votes to officially end DEI initiatives
School board members in Virginia Beach voted 6-5 to officially end diversity and inclusion initiatives in the school district. Specifically, the board has spent several meetings discussing updates to Policy 5-4, formerly known as “Educational Equity.” The policy had previously included several sections and references to “diversity,” “inclusion,” “implicit bias,” “cross-cultural” and “equity.” All of those references are now removed, and Policy 5-4 is renamed to “Educational Opportunity and Achievement.”
Virginia Beach schools, special education leaders reexamining student seclusion policies
Amid concerns about the treatment of an 11-year-old autistic boy in a special education program, a top administrator said the type of makeshift seclusion area where the child was placed should not have been in classrooms. Laura Armstrong, executive director of Southeastern Cooperative Educational Programs, told members of the Virginia Beach Special Education Advisory Committee during a May 12 meeting that special education classrooms “can’t have an impromptu seclusion area” like the one reported in a VCIJ at WHRO investigation. A Virginia Beach City Public Schools administrator told the panel that the division is re-examining its policy on using restraint and seclusion to calm students during a behavior crisis.