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The pandemic period increasingly appears to have been a demographic turning point for the country, according to one expert.

Virginia should be looking to replace, not expand, its reliance on fossil fuels, the Sierra Club’s Lynn Godfrey writes in a guest column.

Good Samaritan Hospice, a community-based nonprofit, hopes its new freestanding hospice house will help address a need for services in the region.

A map provided by demographer Hamilton Lombard of the Weldon Cooper Center shows the area surrounding Winchester highlighted in a dark shade of green, indicating high levels of migration in the region from 2020 to 2023.

Weldon Cooper's Hamilton Lombard offers insight on Richmond's housing problem.

Cooperation among public and private entities is critical to solve the housing problem.

Leaders at Good Samaritan have wanted to bring a freestanding, inpatient hospice service to the valley since the nonprofit's inception in 1992. Now, 30 years later, the dream has become a reality.

Residents moving from D.C. and its surrounding suburbs are relocating further away than they have in the past, part of a national trend of remote workers leaving metropolitan cities for small rural communities.

Since 2020, Winchester has gained traction as Virginia’s fastest-growing metro area due to an outflow of remote workers from the Washington, D.C., region to the exurbs.

Remote work lets Americans continue to flee large cities for smaller towns even after the pandemic, according to the Cooper Center.