A traveling version of the thought-provoking Smithsonian exhibition “Americans” will begin a six-year national tour in August. Based on the major exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the ...

On August 16, the Jamestown Settlement will honor the legacy of the first recorded Africans brought to Virginia in 1619 with an event described as providing “reflections of history and modern ...

Donald Trump's executive order changing 401(k)s: What to know FBI fires three senior officials, including former acting head Brandon Blackstock, Kelly Clarkson's ex-husband and Reba McEntire's former ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Coming off a 6-5 season that ended with a playoff appearance, the Powhatan High School football team is hoping to take the next step in 2025, winning a postseason game for the ...

(Editor's Note: This is the first in a weekly series to be featured every Saturday in The Recorder over the next on the founding of this nation leading up to the 250 th anniversary on July 4, 2026 of ...

JAMESTOWN — Just over 30 years ago, archaeology proved the site of the 1607 James Fort was on dry land, not lost to erosion as myth had portrayed since after the Civil War. Now, the public is invited ...

Meet Karen Screamer. I met her while walking by my local Hands Off rally. She was holding an “Elon Sux” placard in the middle of Main Street. She’s a big one, making it difficult to navigate the ...

About a century ago, entrepreneur Capt. Albert Jester got the idea to transport vehicles across the James River. His dream eventually became reality, and on Feb. 26, 1925, the Captain John Smith Ferry ...

A Native American activist who claims ancestry from the same Virginia tribe as Pocahontas, the Pamunkey indigenous group, is not an enrolled member of the nation, according to the group’s former ...

Jamestown, Virginia. The site of the first permanent English colony the Americas settled in 1607 and the home of the archaeological site “Historic Jamestowne” today. It has long been speculated that ...

The Mattaponi Indian Tribe on Thursday formally submitted a petition for federal acknowledgment as an Indian Tribe with a government-to-government relationship with the United States. The petition was ...