Charlottesville News

More than 300 people packed into Charlottesville's Music Resource Center on Saturday to review the University of Virginia's School of Architecture' s conceptual plans for redeveloping the city's Belmont Bridge.

Architecture students at the University of Virginia displayed their designs of a new Belmont Bridge.

The Boys & Girls Club of Central Virginia held its annual Big Gig Gala Saturday night, one of its biggest fundraisers of the year.

Fed chairman Ben Bernanke has reiterated his plans to hold interest rates at record lows until late 2014.

The Living Wage CampaignA appears to be getting moreA serious. On Wednesday, the Campaign delivered a set of clear and well-researched demands to President Teresa Sullivan - the first such demands featuring an ultimatum since the historic occupation of Madison Hall in 2006 - along with a petition signed by 325 University faculty.

Following a sold-out performance at the Jefferson Theater two years ago, Dierks Bentley will be returning to Charlottesville in May.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Prosecutors continued to lay out evidence against George Huguley as his murder trial moved into its fifth day Friday.

A shoe revolution is jumping off in Charlottesville. Inside a small, nondescript building off Preston Avenue, a husband and wife duo are recreating the idea of comfortable footwear for women.

The American Catholic Church, from left to right, is now being handed a lesson in the hierarchy of raw political authority.

Every day we breathe in a radioactive, cancer-causing gas. Usually it is in small doses that aren't dangerous, but radon is found at unhealthy levels inside one out of every 15 homes.

Eight Monticello High School basketball players served a one game suspension Thursday night for leaving the bench during a game with Charlottesville Tuesday.

This undated file photo provided by Media Relations University of Virginia shows Yeardley Love.

Think it's too late to get away for Valentine's Day weekend? Several resorts and hotels offering "romance packages" for couples looking to start celebrating early all had rooms available as of Thursday afternoon.

What I will repeat are a few exciting highlights. My personal favorite is the fact that the first issue rolled off the presses and hit the newsstands on February 7, 2002, the same day my youngest child was born.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- A former University of Virginia lacrosse player and the ex-girlfriend he is accused of killing traded allegations of infidelity and angry emails in the months before her death, with one of his messages saying: “I should have killed you,” prosecutors said Wednesday.

A former Army National Guard soldier whose illegal activities tainted the Staunton Police Department pleaded guilty Wednesday in United States District Court to federal charges and now faces the possibility of an 11-year prison term.

Bennie Dodd has been a staple on the Charlottesville music scene for decades. He has performed at many places in Charlottesville including churches and fraternity parties.

Chef Mojo is Karl Bock, an actual chef of over 25 years of professional experience.

The exhibition Painted Words: From Object to Subject, featuring works by Charlottesville artist Trisha Orr, opens in Washington and Lee's Staniar Gallery on Feb.

Best break for gun-runners: Virginia's Senate passes a bill February 6 lifting the one-handgun-a-month law put into place in 1993 by Governor Doug Wilder to curb gun trafficking, the Washington Post reports .