The city code says that it is the duty of the person using or occupying a property to clear the snow from city sidewalks.

What Should Be Done With Flatiron Park Downtown? We say a beautiful community garden.

Holiday pet safety tips from the head of the Norfolk SPCA, and also our Adoptable New Best Friend/Pet of the Week.

A discussion about community gardens in Norfolk is taking place tonight at Five Points Community Farm Market @ 6pm. If you’ve never eaten something straight from the land, you are morally obliged to attend.

Prince Books’ Holly Wielkoszewski writes on the devaluation of books, the price war between Amazon.com and Walmart from which it sprang, and why it really matters.

When a gusting Nor’easter blew out the 25 candles laid out on Veterans Day to commemorate the 25 Virginians killed (in uniform) in Afghanistan, few were there to notice. Never have so many cared so little for the sacrifice of so few.

Flatiron Park sits in a place where people live, work, and play all day long. It is not a just-add-mixed-use contrivance of planning. It is the real deal, and its potential to contribute to the sum of the parts of its place is enormous.

Good riddance to SPSA, and here’s to a more comprehensive, forward thinking recycling program for Hampton Roads.

Michael Bergin’s architectural review of 201 Twenty One, which “in theory, with all of the amenities, great location, fancy renderings and exciting program for this project, I should love. But in execution it just feels like I’m walking through a B-movie set. It seems fake.”

A primer on all the ways ODU is leading the pack when it comes to greening the campus, including such innovations as a water cistern under Foreman Field and using tree trimmings to feed hippos at Norfolk Zoo.