The top five most-read daily news stories on VirginiaBusiness.com from Dec. 13, 2024, to Jan. 13
Virginia Business //January 30, 2025//
The top five most-read daily news stories on VirginiaBusiness.com from Dec. 13, 2024, to Jan. 13
Virginia Business // January 30, 2025//
Businesses “Dry January” became all too literal in Richmond, where city residents and businesses struggled with a water outage that started Jan. 6, delaying the start of the General Assembly, and leaving the city without water for several days. (Jan. 8)
Texas-based Buc-ee’s projects it will open its first travel center in Virginia — a 74,000-square-foot Rockingham County location on June 30. (Jan. 2)
Caesars didn’t shortchange on spectacle for the opening of its $800 million Danville casino, the third permanent casino to open in the state. (Dec. 17, 2024)
A Massachusetts-based fusion energy company, plans to build the world’s first grid-scale commercial fusion power plant in Chesterfield County. (Dec. 17, 2024)
A federal court jury in Abingdon found Dr. Joel Smithers, who previously practiced in Martinsville, guilty of 466 federal counts of illegally prescribing Schedule II controlled substances and of one count of maintaining a place for the purpose of illegally distributing controlled substances. (Jan. 7)