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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.

Salem's population is skewed older. Meanwhile, a proposed rezoning for mixed-use development is controversial. Here's how those are related.

Remote work behind small-town boom, says Virginia demographer Hamilton Lombard from the Weldon Cooper Center.

Nearly 20% of Americans 65 and older are still in the workforce, and nearly all of Virginia’s population growth since 2010 has come from its 60 and older population, largely due to birth and death rates and people living longer.

Using data from the Demographic Research Group at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center, Sejal Naik (deputy economist for Virginia Realtors) paints a picture of people continuing to gravitate away from larger metro areas to smaller ones.

State and federal officials say fires that hit Virginia this spring and fall season caused some damage but may add ecosystem diversity.

Isle of Wight County Parks and Recreation held an April 18 ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the Born Learning Trail at Riverview Park in Smithfield recently launched in partnership with United Way of South Hampton Roads and the Luter Family YMCA.