Lounging in a golden robe and crown, the Roman emperor Elagabalis looks on as his guests are showered with rose petals in Lawrence Alma-Tadema romantic painting. The man who became infamous as ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

If you build it, they will come — even if sometimes “they” are stormtroopers looking to arrest you for speaking out against Emperor Palpatine. Production designer and executive producer Luke ...

There’s a date on the books for the first tilt in the upcoming four-year non-conference men’s basketball series between Virginia and Maryland. The Hoos and the Terrapins are slated to renew ...

Metallica played their first concert at Virginia Tech’s Lane Stadium on Wednesday, where the crowd’s rapturous reaction to “Enter Sandman” — which has doubled as the Hokies football team ...

McCaskey’s Max Riccomini clapped and fist-pumped during his entire trek to gather his javelin from the retrieval crew. He didn’t need to hear the number. He already knew it was enough.

The Lego Group is continuing to build its empire, investing $366 million to build a new 2 million-square-foot warehouse in Prince George County, Virginia. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced ...

Leaders of the Virginia GOP’s 2nd Congressional District Committee ousted Laura Hughes, chairwoman of the Virginia Beach Republican Party, late Wednesday night. The vote by secret ballot came ...

VIRGINIA BEACH — After opening an investigation of a man found dead in the Avalon Terrace neighborhood, police on Thursday labeled the shooting domestic in nature and charged a woman with first ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic nominee for governor, says if elected, she won’t sign a bill repealing Virginia’s right-to-work law. Virginia’s right-to-work law ...

It wasn’t just the Metallica concert at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg causing seismic waves this week, a 3.0 magnitude earthquake was recorded near Dillwyn on Tuesday. The earthquake’s center ...

By Reid J. Epstein Reid J. Epstein has covered Virginia’s elections since 2017. When Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia found out that Republican research had linked the G.O.P.’s nominee for ...