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By 2025 the U.S. Navy will need three new submarines built annually in order to meet its national security objectives. But there’s a problem. The disparity between the number of skilled workers available to build the Navy’s ships and submarines ...

AeroFarms, which is building the world’s largest indoor, vertical farm in the Cane Creek Centre industrial park, will hold job fairs on March 15-16 at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research. The company is looking for mechanics, ...

Danville is one of the top eight communities with a shot at winning an award for revitalization of its commercial district. The city’s River District Association announced Tuesday morning that the city is a semifinalist for the Great American ...

North Main Street and the corridor from the North Carolina line to West Main Street and Schoolfield could both use a facelift, according to city officials.

Danville officials have changed where it will allow medical cannabis dispensaries in the city. The change comes after a cannabis dispensing company, Dharma Pharmaceuticals, LLC, decided they no longer wanted to locate in the city’s ...

The Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History has received designation as a site on the historic U.S. Civil Rights Trail, officials announced Tuesday morning. The trail debuted in 2018 and includes more than 120 sites — churches, schools, ...

Two solar projects are planned in Pittsylvania County. An 800-acre, 125-megawatt project is anticipated near the Southern Virginia Megasite at Berry Hill in the southwestern part of the county. Another 60-megawatt project covering about 370 ...

British aerospace and defense components manufacturer MEP Ltd. isn’t moving into its U.S. facility for another few years, but that isn’t stopping the company from getting its operation off the ground in Danville sooner. In August 2021, MEP ...