But the tribe’s fight for recognition has been met with numerous challenges, including a nearly century-old racist state law that experts say all but erased many of Virginia’s Native Americans ...

Now the Native people whose ancestors lived here are finally telling their side of an event known as Bacon’s Rebellion, in which Virginia settlers rose up against the Colonial government in 1676 ...

Leading white supremacists had wanted the Racial Integrity Act to solidify Virginia’s black-white racial binary. To do so, they called for the Act to erase the presence of Native people.

RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia Department of Forestry (DOF) is partnering with nurseries across the Commonwealth to offer discounts on native shrubs and trees this spring. The DOF's Throwing Shade ...

“I have a strip of woods, and at the edge of the trees I put in native groundcovers for shade to have added color.” Virginia bluebells are a spring ephemeral that grows well in wooded area ...

America's only native bamboo was once plentiful along river ... Roxy Todd of member station Radio IQ in Virginia reports on efforts to restore the plant. ROXY TODD, BYLINE: On a Saturday afternoon ...

A MARTÍNEZ, BYLINE: There's a bamboo that's native to the United States ... Roxy Todd of member station Radio IQ in Virginia reports on efforts to restore the plant. ROXY TODD, BYLINE: On ...