RICHMOND - Southwest Virginia school superintendents seeking help patching their outdated and crumbling facilities are holding out hope for state approval of laws that could kick-start construction. Another semester passes for students in trusty old school buildings, cracking and dripping and groaning through winter.

VERONA - Officials with Augusta County Public Schools have announced that masks won't be required beginning Monday for students, staff and visitors. It had already been announced that students could go maskless following a vote by the school board in January, but there was some question about whether teachers would still be required to wear masks under requirements from the Occupational Health and Safety Administration and the Department of Labor and Industry.

For almost 130 years, Central State Hospital has operated just outside of the Petersburg city limits, caring for people with mental illness - for most of its history, only Black Virginians because of racial segregation in state institutions that ended in 1968.

Ayana Askew's voice grew steadily louder and cracked occasionally as her emotions took over. A student at Norfolk's Booker T. Washington High School, Askew, 17, stood in front of the bell tower on the grounds of the Virginia State Capitol on Saturday morning and recited a poem she'd written in 2020 called "Is Justice Blind."

Halifax County School Board is set to discuss school security in closed session when they meet Monday, a little over a week after a student being in possession of a gun led to a lockdown at Halifax County High School. The meeting is set to get underway at 6:30 p.m.

VIRGINIA BEACH - About four months after complaints about their content led six Virginia Beach school library books to be removed from circulation, multiple school division committees have decided to return them to the shelves.

When Albemarle High School junior Drew Lambert approached his rowing coach about starting a snow removal crew to help people, especially those who are disabled or elderly, he didn't know he'd end up speaking to the Charlottesville City Council on behalf of those he hoped to help.

Arlington public school students who are unvaccinated and have been in close contact with someone with COVID-19 will need to take a coronavirus test in order to stay at school. The new policy, starting on Feb.

WINCHESTER - Three students from Handley High School made history on Wednesday as the first all-female welding team to compete in the District Skills USA Welding Competition at the Academies of Loudoun, according to a news release from Winchester Public Schools.

A school club in Fairfax County is connecting high school students with elementary school students who are nonverbal. FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. - Students at Thomas Jefferson High School in Fairfax County, Virginia are using their coding skills to help elementary students who are non-verbal to better communicate.