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After two and a half years known simply as the Pamunkey Indian Tribe casino proposal, the tribe has picked a name for the $500 million resort casino it plans to build in Norfolk. The hotel and casino complex is expected to be completed in 2023.
Founders of the crowfunding website where then-Lt. William Kelly donated set up the fundraiser for him "to give back to an injustice we see happening right before our eyes."
Metronet, the country's eighth-largest fiber internet company, plans to bring a high-speed network to Norfolk. Construction could start this year, but will take a few years to complete.
Danica Royster is serving in the seat formerly held by Angelia Williams Graves. Whoever wins this fall will serve until the next regular election, now set for November 2024.
The government and private groups that can help homeless people have long been scattered across the city. Now they aim to work together at a single shelter.
There will still be pandemic precautions. But many facilities that have been closed for over a year will reopen, something residents have been requesting for months.
Evans Poston resigned as commissioner of the revenue, a post to which he was first elected in 2013. Blythe Scott is expected to fill in for the rest of the year, with voters choosing a successor in November.