May 2024 by Caroline Koutsos, Capital News Service The Electric Slide, Cupid Shuffle, Cotton-Eyed Joe and Cha Cha Slide: Just a few of the most popular ways to get everyone up out of their seats and onto the dance floor at any function. These iconic songs are also...

Center for Biological Diversity petitions to put saltmarsh sparrow on Endangered Species list May 2024 by Charlie Paullin, Virginia Mercury An environmental organization is asking the federal government to list the saltmarsh sparrow, a bird living on wetlands on the...

‘The nice thing about agriculture is it ties into so many careers and it’s personal to every student’ May 2024 by Sean Clougherty Managing Editor, Delmarva Farmer SALISBURY, Md. — When James McCrobie attends the 2024 National Agriculture in the Classroom Conference in...

The reckoning has begun for the smelly invader May 2024 by Meghan McIntyre, The Virginia Mercury Both residents and Virginia Department of Forestry officials agree: Callery pear trees, including the much-loathed Bradford pear variety, aren’t just offensive to the nose...

April officially proclaimed as Virginia Safe Digging Month April 2024 by Staff Reports Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has issued a proclamation declaring April as Virginia Safe Digging Month. The proclamation serves as a reminder to Virginians to contact Virginia 811...

Delays in making hundreds of thousands of utility poles ready for high-speed fiber could threaten funding January 2024 by Tad Dickens, Cardinal News Hundreds of thousands of utility poles, hundreds of millions in funding and increasingly tight deadlines are part of...