Chesapeake News

You won't need a car to enjoy these summer getaway spots. Where you're going, you'll be hiking, biking, and walking around town.

Dollar Tree Inc. says its net income increased 15 percent in the first quarter as consumers spent more at the discount retailer.

The city's public schools are being asked to do more with less, and it's taking a toll, Superintendent James Roberts said Wednesday.

Often bloodlines run deep in baseball. Take the Upton brothers, for example, who are from Chesapeake, VA.

Tammy Givens was in her mid-20s when, seduced by the fast money, she started selling crack.

There are many folks in the region that are asking when we are going to dry out.

This story is a sample from the Chesapeake Clipper, which is included in The Virginian-Pilot every Sunday and Friday in Chesapeake.

The Last Bison's chamber-folk style is built on homespun, organic elements: The plink of a banjo, the thud of a single drum, soaring harmonies from violin and cello.

Virginia Republicans have chosen firebrand conservative minister E.W. Jackson's for lieutenant governor, the first black candidate the party has nominated for statewide office since 1988.

Some of the top players in Virginia's 2014, 2015 and 2016 classes will be at Sunday's Blue Chip Challenge, where an invitation to the Chesapeake Bowl can be earned for class of 2014 prospects.

The Sierra Club, Chesapeake Climate Action Network and Oceana are among the organizers of the event Saturday at Virginia Beach.

YARA EXPANDS STORAGE CAPACITY WITH NEW DIESEL EXHAUST FLUID TERMINAL IN VIRGINIA May 14, 2013 Source: Yara North America news release Yara North America Inc ., the world's largest Diesel Exhaust Fluid producer, today announced the opening of a new storage terminal in Chesapeake, Va.

Well, this morning was cold as predicted. We didn't break the low record of 43 at Norfolk International.

The lane will close from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the area where the expressway crosses over Kempsville Road, a city news release says.

Dwight Etheridge's defense tactic in the Bank of the Commonwealth trial has been to stay in the background and distance himself from the other defendants.

That's a shame. If this is what Virginians can expect the next six months before Election Day, we'll be distracted and disappointed.

A Fort Lee soldier has been charged with sex crimes in Spotsylvania County. Cpl. Phillip Steven Locker, 27, of Petersburg, has been charged with attempted indecent liberties, a Class 6 felony, and electronic solicitation, also a felony.

This story is a sample from the Chesapeake Clipper, which is included in The Virginian-Pilot every Sunday and Friday in Chesapeake.

A global-scale case of indigestion eats away at the organisms of the Earth's oceans, but delicious Chesapeake Bay oysters may be just the marine medicine people need to fight the devastating effects of ocean acidification.

The signs were supposed to warn golfers that they were playing on a course "sculpted" with fly ash - a byproduct of burning coal that contains hazardous heavy metals.