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- The Port Is More Than Cargo Numbers: Follow the Money From Channel to Terminal — Coastal Economy
- Authorized, Appropriated, Contracted, Built: The Four Gates of a Navy Ship — Military & Veterans
- Who Builds the Fleet? The Maritime Workforce Behind the Shipbuilding Promise — Coastal Economy
- Your Flood Map Is Not Your Flood Risk: What Each Tool Actually Shows — Coastal Economy
- What Flood Insurance Covers—and the Gaps Homeowners Discover Too Late — Coastal Economy
- From Resilience Plan to Finished Project: Where Coastal Protection Gets Stuck — Coastal Economy
- What Keeps an Eastern Shore Farm Operating? Land, Labor, Water, and the Route to Market — Coastal Economy
- The Working Water: Seafood, Aquaculture, and the Eastern Shore Economy — Coastal Economy
- Wallops Is a Federal Facility With a Local Supply Chain. Who Captures the Growth? — Coastal Economy
- Why Housing Pressure Feels Different in a Military and Federal-Workforce Region — Your Money
- How Much of Coastal Virginia Depends on a Federal Paycheck? — Coastal Economy
- When Washington Misses a Paycheck, Hampton Roads Feels the Delay — Your Money
- One law changed taxes, Medicaid and SNAP. Here is how the pieces connect. — Your Money
- The new Medicaid rules are federal. Keeping eligible Virginians covered will be a state job. — Health Care
- The new SNAP work rules, explained without the Washington shorthand. — Your Money
- Kiggans backed the Social Security Fairness Act. What changed afterward? — The Record
- What the 2026 defense law authorized—and why Hampton Roads reads the details. — Military & Veterans
- Kiggans and Luria served in different Congresses. Here is how to compare their records honestly. — The Record
- How to read a House roll call in two minutes. — Explainer
- What a CBO estimate can tell you—and what it cannot. — Explainer
- Virginia publishes Medicaid enrollment every month. Here is what to look for. — Health Care
- Congress authorized it. Did Congress fund it? Those are different questions. — Explainer
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- The Port Is More Than Cargo Numbers: Follow the Money From Channel to Terminal
- Authorized, Appropriated, Contracted, Built: The Four Gates of a Navy Ship
- Who Builds the Fleet? The Maritime Workforce Behind the Shipbuilding Promise
- Your Flood Map Is Not Your Flood Risk: What Each Tool Actually Shows
- What Flood Insurance Covers—and the Gaps Homeowners Discover Too Late
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- Federal Transit Proposal Would Consider Birth and Marriage Rates, but No Hampton Roads Project Appears in Current Pipeline
- “Four Years Ago” Ad: What Inflation Data Can and Cannot Prove About Coastal Virginia Costs
- No Tax on Overtime? What a VA-02 Campaign Ad Leaves Out About the Federal Deduction
- Sandbridge Beach Protection Bids Open: Lowest Offer Is $33.5 Million, Not Yet a Contract
- VA Adds CLEAR Sign-In, but Hampton Roads Is Not Among Six In-Person Pilot Sites
- Navy's $6.6 Billion Maryland Submarine Deal: What It Means for Newport News Shipbuilding
- Virginia Rural Health Funding: What the $122 Million and $189 Million Announcements Actually Mean
- Horntown Receives $1.25 Million for Housing and Septic Repairs, but Work Has Not Started
- Did Jen Kiggans Give the VA Its Largest-Ever Budget? What the Appropriations Record Shows
- Did Elaine Luria Help Pass the PACT Act? What Her Role Actually Was
- Did Jen Kiggans Cut Veterans’ Services in Hampton Roads by 22 Percent? What the Ad Leaves Out
- Did Jen Kiggans Vote Against Extending ACA Premium Tax Credits? The Full Timeline
- Does Jen Kiggans Oppose Abortion Exceptions for Rape, Incest and the Mother's Life? What Her Record Shows
- Would 21,000 VA-02 Residents Lose Health Coverage? What the Campaign Claim Actually Measures
- Did Elaine Luria Leave Congress $21 Million Richer? What the Financial Disclosures Show
- Virginia’s First H.R. 1 Medicaid Changes Are Now in Effect. What Coastal Virginia Patients Need to Know
- Groceries Ranked as Voters’ Biggest Budget Concern. What the Data Show in Coastal Virginia
- Diesel Above $6 Tests Virginia’s Working-Water Economy
- New Federal Health-Price Rules Start in 2027. Coastal Virginia Consumers Get More Ways to Check Costs, Not a Price Cap
- Three VA Suicide-Prevention Grants Name Coastal Virginia. Their Awards Total $1.6 Million, but That Is Not a Local Allocation
- The Navy’s $5.1 Billion Truman Overhaul Is Underway in Newport News. About $548 Million Is Obligated So Far
- Supreme Court Restored a Federal Voter-Verification Tool. Virginia Law Still Bars Bulk SAVE Checks
- Federal Data Show Hampton Roads Payrolls Down 0.6% From a Year Ago. The August Unemployment Rate Isn’t Out Yet
- Virginia’s Marketplace Enrollment Fell 73,000 by July. Virginia Beach Entered 2026 With Nearly 16,000 Enrollees
- Virginia Is Considering a Nurse-in-Every-School Requirement. Virginia Beach Says Each School Clinic Already Has a Full-Time RN
- A New GAO Report Counts $4.27 Billion in Norfolk Naval Shipyard Projects. The Navy’s Full Overhaul Now Exceeds $200 Billion
- The 2027 General Schedule Is on Track to Freeze in Hampton Roads. Congress Has Not Changed It Yet
- Virginia Beach Had 30 Voter Registrations Flagged as Improperly Denied. Here’s What Changed
- The Navy Opened a Robotics Warfighting Center at Little Creek. It’s an Operational Command, Not a New Weapons Contract
- A New GAO Report Tracks FEMA’s BRIC Delays. Portsmouth’s Lake Meade Dam Shows the Local Stakes
- Virginia Lawmakers Asked USDA to Declare an Oyster Disaster. No Federal Aid Has Been Approved Yet
- Federal Flood Insurance Does Not Expire Sept. 30. Congress Moved the Deadline to Dec. 11
- VA Awarded More Than $28.2 Million for Veteran Homelessness in Virginia. Here’s What Reaches Coastal Virginia
- EPA Awarded $621,037 for Virginia Wetland Work. Here’s the Coastal Virginia Piece
- A $5 Million Federal Transit Grant Just Landed in Virginia Beach. It Was Already Part of a $115 Million HRT Plan
- The Navy’s $1.7 Billion Hampton Roads Housing Deal Is a Privatization Agreement, Not a Traditional Barracks Contract
- Virginia Postponed Its SNAP Beverage Restriction to Nov. 1. The Federal Comment Window Is Still Open
- A New Chesapeake Bay Order Targets Stormwater Fees. Here’s What It Actually Changes in Virginia Beach
- Three Hampton Roads Infrastructure Projects Won $16.5 Million in Federal Defense Grants
- Dominion-NextEra Merger Gets a Hampton Roads Hearing. What Local Customers Can Weigh In On