Boom!
Mary, the tunnel boring machine for the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel expansion project, broke through to complete the first of two new tunnels on Wednesday.
You'll want to turn your sound up for this. 🔊
After decades of planning, a former railroad corridor that runs through key areas of Virginia Beach has moved a step closer to becoming a dedicated path for pedestrians and bicyclists.
Ex-residents of Lamberts Point in Norfolk, Va, return for reunions, but the area where they grew up is gone, demolished to build a college. Read the next article in our series about how Virginia universities have expanded by dislodging Black communities:
Good evening from Harbor Park where it is the season opener for your reigning champion Norfolk Tides and Magnetic Season Schedule Giveaway Night and a good evening at Harbor Park 🌊⚾️🍻
A major federal climate report released this week warns Virginia will face more sea level rise and intense rainstorms in the years ahead.
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As the Lt. Governor of Virginia, it was important for me to see the state of the border for myself. Our border is not secure. Seeing this truth in person is a very different experience than just seeing this on the nightly news.
Read my full statement:
I lived in VA for one year & used to cross the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel…. This shit is absolutely crazy lmao. Pictures dont do it justice. 17 SEVENTEEN miles of just WATER.
If you heard seasonal bell music downtown this evening, it was probably coming from Freemason Street Baptist Church, and they’re played manually. This is Sean, in his 18th year playing them.
Checked out the flood prevention project in Grandy Village/Chesterfield Heights and dang that paver street looks nice (and functional) more of those please
BREAKING: Norfolk's Planning Commission votes AGAINST new permits for controversial military-themed brewery.
Interesting case - community objections are largely based on ideological grounds and objection to the far-right views of brewery spokespeople.
Breaking News: The gun a 6-year-old student used to shoot his teacher at Richneck Elementary School early last year jammed after he fired the first round, according to a new report from a special grand jury in Newport News.
Approximately 1/3 of Norfolk's population died in the yellow fever epidemic of 1855. 'Thanksgiving Day in Virginia' from 'Thanksgiving Day; A Short Historical Sketch of its Origin' in the Norfolk Landmark newspaper, December 2, 1900.
In 1731 King Frederick I of Sweden was gifted a lion, one of the first lions in Scandinavia. When the lion died shortly after, it was given to a taxidermist and this was the end product. The taxidermist and the museum keepers had never actually seen a lion before, and did not
Good evening from the home of the Norfolk Red Stockings were it is a good evening ⚾️ (Them 59FIFTIES sold out fast unless you have a large or small noggin but there’s more coming)
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Do you know how many secret underground tunnels there could be from MacArthur to other things in Nofo like the Pagoda or Dou’s. Not saying there are just saying do you know and can I have access
instead of suits, each senator should have to constantly wear outfits inspired by their home state like it’s the miss america pageant. (pennsylvania is already doing this which is why they sent john fetterman)
No child should be stuck in schools that aren’t serving them because of their zip code. It’s time to come together to take innovative approaches so that our public schools excel in every zip code and that our teachers know they are valued.
Can we talk about being northbound at Fredericksburg going down that hill and ‘weeeeeeee’ and then every goddamned time you’re halfway up the other side and in the suck
Daz Cameron sporting the Norfolk Red Stockings cap. The
@NorfolkTides
will play as the Red Stockings tonight in tribute of the former Negro League team that played in Norfolk from 1878- the early 1900’s.
@WTKR3
We pray for the teacher who was shot in Newport News. How has life become so devalued? What has happened to us as a society that a six year-old wants to harm their teacher? We have lost our moral compass, and it's affecting our children.
Two ads, same page, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot newspaper, Thanksgiving day, 1951
Norfolk airport: 'la la la! come have some lovely food!'
Virginia Electric and Power Company: 'the scourge of Marxism is all around REMAIN VIGILANT'
LOL this could be from today we are in a simulation