The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia were forced to flee, but soon found themselves cut off ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

A community-based photo exhibition in Shockoe Bottom showcases portraits of African Americans across the centuries for Black History Month.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Current and former Virginia elected leaders speaking at this weekend's service for the first Black mayor ...

Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano (D-Fairfax) and a bipartisan coalition of Virginia prosecutors told lawmakers in ...

A park ranger for Richmond National Battlefield Park didn’t know his acting experience would come into play when he started ...

A passerby saw flames shooting from a bay at World Foreign Car Services near the intersection of Three Chopt Road Patterson ...

Richmond police are searching for two women they believe to be connected to a traffic death that happened last fall. On Oct.

Gen. John Magruder, a Virginia-born Confederate general, took charge of Texas defenses from late 1862 onward, and led a ...

Marisa Méndez, Senior Editor Most visitors are impressed with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, comparing its collections to what you would find in the art museums of much larger cities.

From the Richmond Whig, Jan. 16 ... G.W. IMBODEN, of the Eighteenth Virginia Cavalry, was seriously wounded in the recent demonstration on Gordonsville. He is now in a fair way to recover.

The director of Richmond’s Department of Public Utilities has resigned. April Bingham stepped down Wednesday. Anthony “Scott” Morris – the current Director of Water for the Virginia ...