A Portsmouth native is putting her engineering lessons to good use — even before she graduates from Elon University in North Carolina.

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation outlined its efforts to improve the region's waterways during a trip along the Hampton River Wednesday as it also discussed the need for trash removal efforts on Clean the Bay Day.

A new economic forecast from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia predicts a rise in unemployment in the state in 2025 to its highest level since 2021, with a loss of 32,000 jobs due to federal government cuts. It's also predicting a slower summer tourism season.

The Chesapeake Planning Commission is getting ready to discuss a proposed data center in the Great Bridge region of the city Wednesday night. The proposed 350,000-square-foot facility would be Hampton Road's first industrial scale data center, but many have argued that Virginia as a whole already has enough data centers — some even calling it the data center capital of the world.

Currently, Virginia law requires drivers and front seat passengers to wear a seatbelt. There was no requirement for adult passengers in the back to wear a seatbelt. Christy King got that changed. She advocated for the new law in honor of her son.

The man at the center of a deadly TikTok prank appeared Wednesday morning in Hampton General District Court on unrelated charges, which were set aside.

Pending cuts to Medicaid are expected to impact Planned Parenthood in Virginia.

In red and blue states, protests are underway as citizens react to budget cuts, the nature of the immigration crackdown, challenges to the rule of law and other policies that are part of the second Trump administration.

Junk fees are set to become a thing of the past in Virginia.

“By the end, you’ve had this fee, and that fee, and the other fee tacked on, and the price at the end looks nothing like the price at the beginning,” State Sen. Stella Pekarsky (D- Fairfax) said.

After a near three-month deployment, sailors aboard the USS Normandy are set to return to Naval Station Norfolk Thursday, May 15. https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/uss-normandy-returns-after-near-three-month-deployment/

A firefighter was taken to the hospital, and a resident was treated for smoke inhalation following a house fire in Chesapeake on Wednesday afternoon, according to officials. https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/chesapeake/firefighter-injured-resident-treated-for-smoke-inhalation-in-chesapeake-house-fire/

The Hampton Police Division is seeking the community’s help in locating a woman and her six-month-old twins. https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/hampton/hampton-police-search-for-missing-woman-and-twins/

Hampton Police said they are looking for a missing mother, Ashley Ann White, and her twins, Jason Chambers Jr. and Janelle Chambers.