At CARITAS’ newly renovated campus in Richmond’s Southside, Cameron Patey is guiding participants of The Healing Place, a peer-driven, long-term residential recovery program. He found structure in the program focused on wellness, employment and stability.

After driving from Texas to turn themselves in to Chesterfield authorities, the former owners of the now-closed Shoosmith Landfill appeared in court in a bid to be permitted to return to Texas while awaiting trial, citing health concerns and pointing out both men have doctors there.

Richmond Mayor Danny Avula said in an Instagram video posted Saturday that the city would let its contract with Flock Safety — the company behind a national network of controversial automatic license plate readers — expire June 30, 2027, rather than renewing the agreement.

Joshua Ertle said that Randall Terry — who was seeking a congressional seat in at least two other states as of June — guided him when he was prepping paperwork for his campaign.

King’s successful legal challenge ended Virginia’s long-standing policy of taking away a person’s voting rights if they’re convicted of any felony, leaving only three disenfranchising crimes in the commonwealth.

“Right now, it’s still surreal,” Tati King said in an interview Monday. “I would have never, in a thousand years, think they would change their position the way they did.” King said he believes voting on Election Day this November will help put the historic change in perspective.

Henrico County announced Tuesday that it was terminating its contract with Flock Safety, the public safety and surveillance firm known for its controversial automatic license plate readers. “Ending this contract is the right thing to do for our residents and community,” Roscoe Cooper said.

YWCA Richmond CEO Rupa Murthy told VPM News the closure will be temporary at Sprout School Second Presbyterian, and that the goal is to start reopening some classrooms at the school “as early as next week.” They are in the process of actively trying to hire more staff, she said.

The highest-return degree at every public four-year university was either computer engineering, computer science or computer and information sciences. On the flip side, the lowest-ROI degrees at most schools were in the visual or performing arts, particularly those related to drama.

Rebekkah Robinson, a professional staff intelligence investigator, faces two counts for improper use of an ALPR system by law enforcement and two counts of computer invasion of privacy, according to a Friday press release. Both are Class 1 misdemeanors.

Spanberger’s administration posits that the most affordable path forward for Virginia is to focus on renewable energy resources, battery storage, demand management and emerging energy technologies.

According to a Sept. 29 letter, DEQ staff “received email correspondence indicating unauthorized filling of surface waters … outside the permitted impact areas at the Project Peanut site.” DEQ received 7 reports between Dec. 2025 and Aug. 2026 and conducted 5 inspections during the same period.

Effective today, legally residing immigrants with humanitarian statuses — including refugees, people granted asylum, victims of trafficking, and others — who were previously eligible for Medicaid will now be unable to access publicly-funded coverage.

Richmond City officials are plotting out what policy proposals and funding requests they will take to state lawmakers for the 2027 Virginia General Assembly session. The package has a request for $100m in state funding to cover costs for its combined sewer overflow project in fiscal year 2028.

Human Rights First’s ICE Flight Monitor, which tracks immigration enforcement flights using publicly available data, documented 104 enforcement flights departing from Richmond International Airport through July 2026. There were 128 such flights in all of 2025. New from @keyrisreports.bsky.social:

“Black Survival, Joy and Community at America’s 250th” was the theme of the Descendants of Enslaved Communities of Virginia's Descendants’ Day Symposium. DEC-VA VP Bertha French called the event part of a movement to re-center stories of enslaved communities in conversations about US history.

Scott Ukrop said his father Jim's north star was shaped by a sense of competition and a belief in taking care of the customer: “Really trying to treat people to see how you'd like to be treated.”

Virginia ELECT said mailers were sent out to 234,852 people after a landmark federal court ruling mostly struck down Virginia’s automatic felony disenfranchisement rule. The department also said it identified 998 people whose registrations had been incorrectly denied or canceled.

“We have desperate infrastructure needs that have, for too long, been deferred, and then we have entire communities of public housing that have been allowed to decay.” Avula said his priorities for the FY28 budget are the city’s workforce, affordable housing and cost of living challenges.

“We’re navigating a shift in the calendar year for our tax assessment. We’re in the midst of an open collective bargaining period,” Avula said at the city’s budget kickoff meeting Tuesday at the Central Richmond Boys and Girls Club.