The Virginia Derby will be held this weekend in New Kent at Colonial Downs. (Colonial Downs) NEW KENT— With just days remaining before the 2026 Virginia Derby meet, Colonial Dow ...

Then wash all down with good wine and beer, And So with mirth conclude the Year. — Virginia Almanac, 1765 Except for the feasting, an 18th century Christmas in Tidewater Virginia was simple and modest ...

Tens of thousands of race fans headed to Colonial Downs Racetrack in New Kent County on Saturday for a day of betting and ...

This image courtesy of Rieley & Associates Landscape Architects shows a preliminary rendering for the reconstructed garden of John Custis IV at The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, a living history ...

The racist violence in Charlottesville is an appalling chapter in the very long history of white supremacy in America. Watching marchers with torches and Confederate flags near the site of Thomas ...

Colonial Downs in New Kent County will host some of the top horses and trainers in the country for a three-day racing weekend headlined by the Virginia Derby.

This video is no longer available. Their contributions helped establish colonial Virginia, but the stories of enslaved and freedmen who rowed down the James River to move goods aren’t well known to ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Colonial Williamsburg was one of America’s first planned cities. Gov. Francis Nicholson laid out plans for the city in 1699, and it was the capital of the Virginia Colony until ...

After Saturday’s Virginia Derby, the summer racing season runs from June 25 through Sept. 7, for a total of 48 days of live ...