Virginia Commonwealth University received state approval this week to buy Altria Group’s 450,000-square-foot research building in downtown Richmond. The Altria Center for Research and Technology, ...

Georgia trailer manufacturer Carry-On Trailer plans to permanently shut down its manufacturing plant at 159 Industrial Park Drive in Montross and lay off 179 employees on Nov. 29. The company, a ...

Raytheon-Rafael Protection Systems (R2S), a joint venture between Arlington County–based Fortune 500 aerospace and defense contractor RTX and Israel‘s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, has been awarded ...

Denver-based data center developer EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure secured $1.5 billion in financing toward building two data centers in Sterling, it announced Tuesday. The data center developer, ...

Julie Ross, the Paul and Dorothea Torgersen dean of Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering and special advisor to the president, has been named Tech’s next executive vice president and provost, the ...

Billionaire Pittsburgh Steelers minority owner Rob Citrone and his wife, Cindy, are donating more than $50 million to Hampden-Sydney College — the largest gift in the school’s 250-year history — to ...

After four years and a record 399 vetoes under Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Virginia Democrats now have a clear path to passing legislation this year under Democratic Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger.

During the past three years, Govini CEO Tara Murphy Dougherty estimates she’s handled hundreds of calls from investors looking to grab a stake in the Arlington County-based defense software firm she ...

Eight of the highest demand days for electricity in Virginia occurred during the cold snap earlier this year, with a record set on Feb. 9. Those topped the previous record set during the summer of ...

Five U.Va. board members and GMU’s rector and one board member resigned before Spanberger took office, leaving 27 seats to fill George Mason’s board now has quorum to conduct public meetings Former ...

The new frontier of AI-driven welding and shipbuilding is on the horizon for Huntington Ingalls Industries in Newport News. In February, HII announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with ...

The U.S. Army has awarded an $869 million contract to Reston-based Fortune 500 government contractor Leidos to design, build and integrate secure systems for the Pentagon aimed at accelerating ...