As companies race to build the infrastructure behind AI and the internet, communities are weighing new investment against questions about electricity, water and long-term costs.
- Steve Gorman Reuters
The Chicago entrepreneur, whose eponymous company transformed Black haircare in the U.S., died Monday at age 99, news media reported.
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A new ranking of the nation's wealthiest suburbs, as measured by household income, finds much of America's wealth concentrated in a few metropolitan areas.
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Retirement planners sometimes speak of a "magic number": a rough estimate of how much money an American might need to retire in comfort. Not surprisingly, the number keeps rising.
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The next time you want to use a restroom in a restaurant, you might have to reach for your wallet.
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Here's what shoppers bought and how much they spent during Amazon.com's annual sales event.
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The phaseout of the 20-year-old subsidies, accelerated under Trump’s 2025 tax law, could drive contract prices for wind and solar energy up by 40% to 50%.
The 21st Century Road to Housing Act, more than a year in the making, encouraged a national discussion of why housing is so unaffordable.
Amazon Prime Day starting Tuesday will be a litmus test of U.S. shoppers' spending power, with the earlier-than-usual sales event increasingly centered on necessities rather than carefree splurges.
Many Americans feel a division between those who are wealthy and those who are not in this country, a new NBC News poll found.
The supply concerns come as women going through menopause across the U.S. face difficulties filling prescriptions for estrogen patches.
The new Fed chairman said he will launch five task forces to review how the central bank conducts its business in critical policy areas.
Pride Month has suffered corporate defections since gay and transgender rights emerged as a culture-war flashpoint and the Trump administration cracked down on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
Housing is fundamental. We all need a roof over our heads. We all need someplace to raise our families, cook our meals, escape from the world.
Smith Mountain Lake Pirate Days is set to return next weekend even as low water levels have threatened to put a damper on the popular lake event.
A Franklin County man died when his motorcycle struck a pickup truck from behind.
Read through the obituaries published today in Franklin News Post.
What is usually one of the busiest weekends of the summer for lake officials was ultimately uneventful.
A search warrant was issued earlier this week for City Dogs Boarding & Playcare. Dogs were seen in "significant emotional distress" amid high temperatures.
Virginia’s new liquor law is changing how restaurants and cocktail-focused venues operate. Here’s what HB 975 means for businesses.
The long and hard fight over a new state budget is proving its worth by extending a lifeline to 200,000 Virginians who either have lost their health insurance coverage or are struggling to keep it.
The lawsuit seeks $3 million from Blacksburg after a police officer struck and killed Virginia Tech graduate student Spencer Forsling in December.
The Senate will return Monday for a four-week work period with one of the most influential voices — Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., — still absent with undisclosed health problems.
Trump said on Friday he would not sign a bipartisan housing affordability bill that he had called "a big yawn," but the measure can become law without his signature.
She inspired generations of pilots and astronauts through her trailblazing work as a member of NASA’s “Women in Space Program” in the 1960s.
Graham Platner ended his campaign Wednesday after a string of controversies, including an accusation of sexual assault.
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A Rocky Mount woman was arrested in connection to a homicide that occurred early Tuesday morning.
The case stems from a incident that took place between Patterson and staff at the Raine and Perdue law firm in Rocky Mount in April.
A Franklin County Sheriff's Office K9 will soon receive a bulletproof and stab-proof protective vest thanks to a charitable donation.
In January, Erin Strotman pleaded no contest to nine counts of child abuse in Henrico County Circuit Court as part of an agreement with prosecutors.
The long and hard fight over a new state budget is proving its worth by extending a lifeline to 200,000 Virginians who either have lost their health insurance coverage or are struggling to keep it.
A three-judge panel in Charlottesville decided Monday that the individual lawsuits against Virginia's new assault weapons ban will not be combined into a single case.
As Virginians raced to buy firearms before the state's assault weapons ban took effect, they drove firearm background checks to the highest monthly number ever recorded in the commonwealth.
