RICHMOND — More Americans are working from home, and that’s especially true in Virginia and in the Washington, D.C., metro area, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Nationally, the proportion of workers who work from home rose from 4.3% in 2010 to 5.3% last year, the data shows. Virginia is slightly above the national average, with 5.6% of the state’s workforce working from home in 2018. The figure was 6.1% in the D.C. metro area, which includes parts of Virginia, Maryland and W

Virginia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped from 2.8% to 2.7% in September, state and federal officials announced Friday. Virginia was one of seven states where the unemployment rate fell last month, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Unemployment in the commonwealth continues to be well below the national rate of 3.5%. According to the , Virginia had the lowest seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the Southeast. Virginia was tied with Colorado, Hawaii and Utah

On a Friday night in October, Katelyn Tilts was walking to a convenience store with a group of friends when she saw headlights coming at her. “A car came around the corner really quickly and was swerving. The driver was swerving but started going directly at me and hit me head-on,” Tilts later . “I remember thinking that it hurt so bad that I didn’t know how I would be able to make it until the ambulance got there.” The hit-and-run incident left Tilts, a freshman at Virginia Commonwealth Unive

Data: More work from home in US, Virginia and DC area RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — More Americans are working from home, and that’s especially true in Virginia and in the Washington, D.C., metro area, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Nationally, the proportion of workers who work from home rose from 4.3% in 2010 to 5.3% last year, the data show. Virginia is slightly above the national average, with 5.6% of the state’s workforce working from home in 2018. The figure was 6.1% in the D

Nestled in a suburban outpost of brick and commerce in Midlothian, The Shaved Duck Restaurant offers diners an alternative to the chain restaurants which surround it. It’s a 25-minute drive from Richmond but this fall The Shaved Duck, along with Aloi in Scott’s Addition, for the first time joined the fall Richmond Restaurant Week lineup of over 40 restaurants. The biannual, week-long event held Oct. 21-27 gives diners a chance to sample Richmond’s nationally acclaimed dining scene — often at a

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Over the past four years, voter registration has grown more in Virginia localities that tend to vote Democratic than in localities that usually go Republican. That could spell trouble for the GOP heading into November’s elections. Between August 2015 and August 2019, voter registration increased 9% in the state’s Democratic strongholds but only 6% in Republican strongholds, according to an analysis of data from the Virginia Department of Elections. Democratic Party officia