"During the first half of 2022, PenFed posted the strongest membership growth in our credit union’s 87-year history. We attracted a total of 287,000 net new members over the first six months. Many of them joined thanks to current members who share their stories about PenFed’s great rates and world-class service, according to James Schenck, president and CEO.

For the second year in a row, Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church has been named the best hospital in Virginia on U.S. News and World Report’s annual list of the best hospitals in the nation, which was released July 26, according to a report from the weekly Virginia Business magazine.

Juvenile Detention Center detainees are learning about many vocational career options, how to navigate trade schools, how to start and run a business, and the best practices for applying for positions via a new PWC Public Libraries program with the help of a grant from Dollar General.

The PWC Department of Development Services’ Building Construction Services Plan Intake and Permit counters will open at 9:30 a.m., on Wednesday, July 27, due to mandatory staff training.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin today, July 26, announced that AeroFarms, a Certified B Corporation and world leader in indoor vertical farming, will create 66 additional new jobs and increase production of freshly-grown leafy greens as part of a major operational expansion of its new vertical farm in Pittsylvania County.

A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 22,233,323 visitors to 21 national parks in Virginia spent over $1.2 billion in Virginia in 2021. That spending resulted in 18,000 jobs and had a cumulative benefit to the state economy of nearly $2 billion.

There were 124,878 more Virginians employed in May 2022 than there were in May 2021, an increase of 3.5 percent year-over-year. Although recent trends are encouraging, Virginia has yet to recover more than 133,000 jobs that were lost during the pandemic

The Virginia Board for Barbers and Cosmetology, a regulatory board under the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation (DPOR), has voted to reduce the number of hours required to obtain a cosmetology license by 33 percent, from 1,500 to 1,000.