In the early morning hours of June 20, 1864, hundreds of Union soldiers arriving through light fog on the James River crept ...

Petersburg National Battlefield is located in South-central Virginia. The park offers driving tours of the siege and bat ...

Recent severe flooding across Petersburg did major damage to trails at Petersburg National Battlefield. As these trails are now unsafe to use, the National Park Service (NPS) has implemented ...

Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of skeletons at Colonial Williamsburg – but the skeletons weren’t from the Revolutionary War.

Archaeologists found 4 Civil War Confederate soldiers' remains in Williamsburg. Believed to have died in 1862, they were reburied this week at a local cemetery.

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War. The skeletons were found on the grounds of a gunpowder magazine at Colonial ...

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.

Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the diluted modern concept of a hero.

The City of Richmond, VA, has issued a boil water advisory along with a map of affected areas and timeline. On the evening of May 27, 2025, the city wrote in a statement that the "two zones ...

The advisory was issued after Richmond's water treatment plant experienced an operational issue in the early morning hours of May 27.

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Richmond’s efforts to reimagine policing may have negatively affected the police department’s ability to hire and keep staff but investing in both sworn and civilian forms of public safety ...