Navy launches online program to help sailors, families and retirees struggling with addiction

Navy offers sailors online help to quit addictions

FDA investigating possible mercury exposure linked to homemade skin cream from Mexico

Feds probing homemade skin cream link to mercury

Virginia officials to study impact of increasing elk population; cattlemen worry about disease

Va. to size up impact of increasing elk population

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia game officials will study the consequences of increasing the number of Rocky Mountain elk in the state’s remote southwest corner, a move opposed by cattle farmers fearful of the spread of disease.

Inspired by Kentucky’s success, Va. weighs plan to bring back elk to its southeastern hills

Va. may fill its own hills with Rocky Mountain elk

RICHMOND, Va. — More than 150 years after Virginia’s last native elk was killed, game officials may try to populate the state’s southwest corner with its bigger, buff-colored cousin — the Rocky Mountain elk.

Controversial cervical cancer vaccine more suggestion than mandate for schoolgirls in Va., DC

HPV vaccine a suggestion, not mandate in DC, Va.

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia and the District of Columbia are moving toward requiring sixth-grade girls to get vaccinated for a potentially cancerous sexually transmitted disease.