While Dominion Energy says its crews are working around the clock, as of Thursday afternoon, more than 500 of its customers in Charlottesville, and more than 14,800 in Albemarle County, are still in the dark — and the cold.
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The Blue Ridge Health District will host a town hall to answer your questions this week. A Tuesday evening townhall was postponed due to power outages.
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The district’s Thursday clinic at Fashion Square Mall began at 2 p.m. Hundreds of cars circled the parking lot by 2:30 p.m. Those managing traffic and signalling people in couldn’t say how long the lines might get.
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Somewhere in the northern part of Virginia, officials have confirmed the state’s first two cases of COVID-19 caused by the new Omicron variant of the virus.
It’s unclear exactly where the variant was detected. Officials have...
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The holiday season calls for giving. Food pantries across the country are receiving donations in droves, but what should you be giving?
One in six people in Charlottesville are considered food insecure, according...
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Local health officials say they are doing what they can to prepare for the arrival of a new variant of COVID-19 called Omicron.
The new variant has not yet been reported in the United States, though...
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As of this week, UVA Health has fired 64 employees and suspended without pay 18 more for refusing to receive a COVID vaccine. An additional 39 have resigned.
Of those 121 people, two are doctors and...
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The first Pfizer vaccines for children between ages 5-11 will be available in the Charlottesville area on Saturday.
The vaccine received final approval from the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and...
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The local Blue Ridge Health Districts expects to begin immunizing children between ages 5-11 within two weeks — but there won’t be enough of the smaller pediatric doses for all area kids.
At least not right...
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Right now, a handful of scientists around the world are trying to create a universal vaccine that would protect against this — and all future — coronavirus pandemics.
The problem they face is that viruses are...
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COVID-19 booster shots received final federal authorization on Thursday.
The approval is limited to people who are 65 and older, people with underlying medical conditions that put them at higher risk of becoming seriously ill or...
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While the Virginia Health Department continues planning to roll out long-awaited COVID-19 vaccine “booster shots,” it now appears those shots will only be available to certain higher risk individuals.
A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee...
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