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Weekday Podcast

The WMRA Daily brings you the latest local, regional and statewide news for the Shenandoah Valley and Central Virginia.

Latest Episodes
  • Former Congressman Denver Riggleman returns from humanitarian work in Ukraine… A quarter-million Virginians could lose Medicaid coverage if President Trump’s massive budget bill passes… Jeff Schapiro surveys the week in Virginia politics….
  • Residents say they witnessed an ICE detention near Harrisonburg, with the help of State Police and the FBI… The parent company of the Daily Progress reports the results of a February hack that affected the company for weeks… An unusual program in Nelson County deploys belly dancing to help seniors with neuro-degenerative conditions….
  • We go into the field (and stream) to learn how government and nonprofit agencies assess the health of our local waterways… Senator Creigh Deeds hopes that Virginia law will help provide hope for families threatened with separation by the Trump administration… Governor Youngkin selects September 9th for a special election to fill the seat of the late Representative Gerry Connolly….
  • Some residents in Louisa County are again under a boil-water notice after an electric outage… DMV says watch out for a new text messaging scam… Republican Terry Kilgore is the new minority leader in the House of Delegates….
  • Rockingham County’s school board expresses its intention to follow Governor Youngkin’s directive to do more against antisemitism... As we enter hurricane season, the governor says Virginia is prepared, despite Trump administration cuts to FEMA... After DHS named Trump-friendly Augusta County as one of many on its list of “sanctuary jurisdictions,” a national sheriff’s association complains and the list is taken down….
  • Former Nexus executive Richard Moore fails to show up for sentencing… DHS claims that dozens of Virginia communities, including Charlottesville and Augusta County, are obstructing immigration enforcement… We examine the effect on the arts in Staunton of potential Trump administration cuts….
  • Some UVa students, workers and faculty are opposing Governor Youngkin’s appointment of former Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to the school’s governing board… Once at odds over a reservoir in Rockbridge County, Scouting America and local conservationists are now working together on a new management plan… Our series on cannabis in Virginia continues, with a look at how some medical cannabis patients are being protected in the workplace….
  • President Trump’s pardon of former Culpeper County Sheriff Jenkins is not the first time a conviction for corruption has been set aside… Turnout is unusually high for early primary voting, especially on the Democratic side… Two Virginia men honor a forgotten part of Virginia’s history with a special kind of river cruise….
  • Former Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins, convicted on bribery charges, may get a pardon from President Trump… Charlottesville City Schools transfers decades worth of historic records to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center… Virginia’s Supreme Court strikes down a law meant to speed broadband deployment across railroad lines….
  • A second case of measles in Virginia is identified in someone who spent time in Charlottesville... A hiker from Virginia Beach dies after falling off the walking trail at Crabtree Falls in Nelson County... A former Augusta County deputy sues Sheriff Donald Smith for allegedly creating a hostile work environment....