Here's a list of closures (but not delays!) for tomorrow because...the weather has not been great.

We also have a list of resources and emergency hotlines and alert system signups available on our website.

Despite what a post said on the Charlottesville subreddit, a local Waffle House will be open through the winter storm. Shelley Herring, who works in customer service at the location, said the restaurant will be open this weekend. “We are nonstop, 24/7,” Herring told VPM News on Friday.

Charlottesville residents told city officials last week during a series of community forums exactly how they want their tax dollars to be spent in the upcoming fiscal year. This isn’t Charlottesville’s first budget forum, but it is its first using Monopoly money. www.vpm.org/news/2026-01...

Walter Plecker, Virginia's first registrar for the Bureau of Vital Statistics, erased Indigenous people from records through the mid-1940s, leading to all but one of the 11 state-recognized tribes being unable to provide proof of continued existence since 1900 to the US Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Friends, family and fans of Harris packed Monday’s City Council meeting, where council members acknowledged Harris’ “extraordinary life and enduring legacy” with a proclamation naming him a visionary leader, storyteller and son of the 10th and Page community. www.vpm.org/news/2026-01...

The University of Virginia's Board of Visitors named a new president Friday — despite Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger asking it to pause the search until she filled multiple vacant board seats. www.vpm.org/news/2025-12...

Do you have upcoming travel plans? AAA predicts that this year's holiday travel will break last year's record and set a new 24-year high. I talked to AAA Mid-Atlantic spokesperson Morgan Dean about what to expect ahead of the holidays. www.vpm.org/news/2025-12...

Challengers are lining up early for the 2026 race for Virginia's 5th Congressional District in the US House of Representatives. www.vpm.org/elections/20...

Oatmeal the Third is lit! 🎄 Thank you to everyone who visited VPM’s open house last night! We had the best chats (and cider and cookies)

We decorated the downtown office!

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Charlottesville wants to improve the Barracks Road and Emmet Street intersection by adding new turning lanes, a bike trail that connects to other bike paths in the city and by constructing a pedestrian-friendly median. www.vpm.org/news/2025-12...

I love that the drunk raccoon feel good story is making the rounds to every single national outlet, literally the perfect ambassador for our state. we should put him on the flag next to Virtue

Virginia lawmakers and University of Virginia faculty are raising alarm bells about ongoing patterns of secrecy and lack of transparency surrounding former UVA President Jim Ryan's resignation in June. www.vpm.org/news/2025-11...

Hi from me and my editors!! VPM creates a daily podcast on news from around Virginia and we totally think you should tune in :)

RESULTS! ARE! COMING! IN! You too can be a giant nerd by following along here: enr.elections.virginia.gov/results/publ...

Newest alert just went out, saying UPD is on even at Shannon.

Active attacker alert at UVA ongoing

Happy howl-oween from VPM!! The doggie howl-oween on the downtown mall today was the cutest 🥹

Charlottesville City Council unanimously agreed at its meeting Monday to settle a lawsuit challenging a December 2023 zoning ordinance meant to provide more residential density to the city. www.vpm.org/news/2025-10...

The University of Virginia became the first public university and fifth overall to publicly reject the US Department of Education's "Compact for Academic Excellence.” #virginia #uva #charlottesville #highered #publicmedia #wahoowa #gohoos #education

With two weeks left to cast an early ballot, VPM News has compiled information on the satellite early voting locations available in Central Virginia. www.vpm.org/elections/20...

UVA Student Council President Clay Dickerson had a lot to say at yesterday's protest. His reaction after the compact was rejected is just...delightful. "After UVA had officially rejected the compact, VPM News reached back out to Dickerson for a reaction. He responded via text: 'Wooohooo.'"

Today, UVA became the first public university and the fifth school overall to reject the compact, which requires schools that sign to adhere to a set of standards laid out by the White House in order to receive preferential federal funding. www.vpm.org/news/2025-10...

BREAKING: The University of Virginia has become the fifth school to reject the "Compact for Academic Excellence" that was initially sent to nine universities.

Today: me, @hannahdavisreid.bsky.social and @theshabomb.com will be at UVA for the Rally Against the Compact for @vpm.org. Here's to...a day.

The federal government has started reductions in force, or RIFs, across federal agencies today. We want to hear from you if you’ve received a RIF letter — or if you know someone who works in the federal government and has been affected. DM us or email: [email protected]

At Monday’s meeting, the Charlottesville City Council unanimously approved the purchase of 2000 Holiday Drive, a 27,000-square-foot office building that the city plans to turn into a low-barrier shelter as part of its homelessness intervention plan. www.vpm.org/news/2025-10...

At the end of September, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were seen outside the Albemarle County Courthouse in Charlottesville, but did not come into the building. www.vpm.org/news/2025-10...

State Sen. Creigh Deeds (D–Charlottesville) told VPM News that in the short term, "a whole lot of people are going to be inconvenienced because they're not going to get the checks they need to support their families and pay their bills." www.vpm.org/news/2025-10...

VPM talked about the importance of early childhood education at the Health Birth Healthy Baby Expo in Charlottesville! We got to meet so many amazing community members and birth workers. Check out our site for more information on the campaign! 90by5.org

Last Friday, the University of Virginia Board of Visitors voted to lease the historic Oak Lawn home to Charlottesville City Schools for $1 annually, with the option to hand over ownership later. www.vpm.org/news/2025-09...

In its first joint meeting, the Charlottesville City Council and the city’s Police Civilian Oversight Board met Sept. 11 to discuss ordinance changes on office operations and functionality, as well as ordinance clarity. www.vpm.org/news/2025-09...

At the upcoming University of Virginia Board of Visitors Finance Committee meeting on Sept. 12, the university is expected to lease and transfer the historic Oak Lawn home to Charlottesville City Schools for a “nominal fee.” www.vpm.org/news/2025-09...

Thanks to @hannahdavisreid.bsky.social and @vpm.org for this fantastic story! www.vpm.org/news/2025-09...

In Monday’s city council meeting, councilors heard resident and advocate concerns about an 11-story student housing project next to Westhaven. They also passed a resolution redesigning Avon Street for multimodal transportation, removing 33 on-street parking spots. www.vpm.org/news/2025-08...

Virginia Department of Health's Office of Licensure and Certification investigates complaints in nursing homes. So far in 2025, there have been 1,079 complaints, up from 730 in all of 2024. Still over 40% of OLC's inspector positions are vacant, according to Youngkin. www.vpm.org/news/2025-08...

HAPPENING NOW: @vpm.org’s mug stop at give and take coffee in Charlottesville! Come meet @hannahdavisreid.bsky.social and see how we’re helping local news out here. We also have FREE MUGS!

Congress will claw back $1.1B from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. VPM, which is a PBS and NPR affiliate, will lose more than $2.5M over the next two years in lost funds. VPM President Jayme Swain says the cuts could result in the loss of Central Virginia local programming.

For the first time in more than a decade, the University of Virginia Faculty Senate overwhelmingly passed a vote of no confidence in the school’s Board of Visitors, indicating that a majority of the group does not support the governing body’s policies www.vpm.org/news/2025-07...

“My hope is that my kids always know who they are, and despite what history tells them, they're still beautiful, and they're brilliant and they have the ability to basically accomplish anything they want to.” said Dorothy Retland, one of the walking tour’s organizers. www.vpm.org/news/2025-07...

Students, faculty and community members gathered Saturday morning to show support for outgoing President Jim Ryan. Ryan announced his resignation last week after the school faced scrutiny from federal investigators related to its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion practices. #UVA #charlottesville

“It's one thing when you see it happening at other schools. It's another thing when it happens to you,” rising fourth-year Boris Nakashyan said of the federal pressure. “That's when you really have an eye opening experience and realize what is truly going on.” www.vpm.org/news/2025-06...

BREAKING: UVA President Jim Ryan resigned Friday, according to news reports.

ICE agents have been in regular attendance at the Chesterfield County Courthouse since last Friday, with plainclothes agents attending traffic court, arraignments & preliminary hearings. Some of the agents are masked, and when proceedings have finished they've been taking people out of the building.

At a rally in Charlottesville three years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger says a potential Democratic trifecta in state government would work to codify reproductive rights in Virginia’s Constitution. www.vpm.org/elections/20...

In a 3–2 vote last week, Charlottesville City Council approved a plan to issue over $50 million in bonds to finance the renovation of the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail, with cost estimates coming in over previous expectations. www.vpm.org/news/2025-06...

The City of Charlottesville is the second Virginia locality to try rank choice voting to elect new City Council members. Jen Fleisher and Juandiego Wade were the two most popular candidates in Tuesday’s primary election.

The height of luxury in Wisconsin www.wpr.org/news/wiscons...