A group of UVA inventors has already won tens of thousands of dollars for an idea for pets that may have implications as a human male contraceptive. Contraline, a highly praised innovation by judges ...

Crispy leaves, croutons and a spot-on, creamy, garlicky dressing make this refreshing lunch or dinner dish the perfect partnership between health and decadence. Feeding four adults comfortably, the ...

On November 9, 1620, the Mayflower bobbed in choppy brine off the Cape Cod coast. On board were 101 puke-green Puritans, seasick and starving after an Atlantic crossing that had taken more than two ...

The House of the General Assembly—the oldest legislative body in the western hemisphere—basically operates like a middle school classroom, with the speaker of the House playing the role of jaded, ...

The Charlottesville area has always been shaped by immigrants, and we have a long tradition of recognizing them for it. French-born Claudius Crozet, who served as an engineer in Napoleon’s army, ...

Fifty years ago, man first walked on the moon and a music festival in Woodstock, New York, signaled a generational shift. As iconic as those events are, that’s not what Nelson County remembers about ...

With any list, there’s a natural tendency to look first at No. 1, and neither I nor Project Censored would discourage you from doing that, when it comes to its annual list of the top-censored stories ...

Two months ago, Robert Davis was getting ready to set up chairs for Bible study when he received some life-altering news: Within hours, he’d be walking out of Coffeewood Correctional Center, a free ...

I’m getting spooked,” says Anna Matijasic, the 26-year-old fiddler for Jim Waive and the Young Divorcees, and I know the feeling, a dull pounding in my gut. It’s a bit past 8pm on a Wednesday last ...

If you think that the end of summer means it’s time to put away the hiking boots, think again. Fall and winter in Virginia are fantastic seasons to walk in the woods—for 15 minutes or a whole day.

Before August 12, 2017, many people thought of America’s Confederate statues as harmless pieces of history—if they thought of them at all. Then the hate groups came to Charlottesville, ostensibly to ...

Behind an ever-changing food scene, local cooks, mixologists, and makers are working every day to bring out the best in their fields of expertise, and teach a deeper appreciation of what grows in the ...