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    Business notes: Norfolk to Washington bus route planned next year; Dollar Tree opens 9,000th store

    Gogo Charters, a charter bus company, is expanding daily operations to the Mid-Atlantic with three new routes next year. The service, anchored in Washington, D.C., will have routes extending to Norfolk, Baltimore and Charlotte with planned stops along the way, including Richmond and Charlottesville. The bus will pick up at the Courtyard Norfolk Downtown at 520 Plume St. Fares will start as low as $10. The buses offer plush reclining seats, Wi-Fi and onboard restrooms. (Courtesy of Gogo Charters)
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    Gogo Charters, a charter bus company, is expanding daily operations to the Mid-Atlantic with three new routes next year. The service, anchored in Washington, D.C., will have routes extending to Norfolk, Baltimore and Charlotte with planned stops along the way, including Richmond and Charlottesville. The bus will pick up at the Courtyard Norfolk Downtown at 520 Plume St. Fares will start as low as $10. The buses offer plush reclining seats, Wi-Fi and onboard restrooms. (Courtesy of Gogo Charters)
    The primary crane for the dry dock known as "Big Blue" is seen the Newport News Shipbuilding yard on Friday, Aug. 26, 2022 ahead of Saturday's keel laying ceremony.

    Newport News Shipbuilding furloughs 471 salaried employees

    There are 10 Coastal Cocktails varieties, including Vodka Cucumber Collins, Gin Blackberry Bramble, Vodka Orange Crush and Whiskey Lemonade. (Courtesy of Coastal Cocktails)

    From beach to bar cart, Coastal Cocktails in Virginia Beach offers new summer flavors

    This March 2024 photo provided by The Hechinger Report shows Derrika Richard as she walks her three youngest children to their child care classrooms at Clara's Little Lambs in New Orleans. (Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report via AP)

    Lack of affordable, quality child care in Hampton Roads creating economic drag, leaders say

    By Sonja Barisic
    May 29, 2025 at 8:06 a.m.
    Speakers emphasized that child care is a workforce issue directly tied to economic growth. Gaps...
    A rendering of Virginia Natural Gas' new $50 million operations headquarters being built in the southern Greenbrier section of Chesapeake. (Courtesy of Virginia Natural Gas)

    Virginia Natural Gas breaks ground on $50M operations headquarters in Chesapeake

    By Sandra J. Pennecke
    May 28, 2025 at 3:54 p.m.
    The company, one of four natural gas distribution companies operating under Southern Company Gas, maintains...
    A banner celebrating 125 years of Phoebus is seen on East Mellen Street in Hampton on Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (Kendall Warner / The Virginian-Pilot)

    Phoebus is the place where people and businesses go to ‘make it’

    By Susan Smigielski Acker
    May 28, 2025 at 2:50 p.m.
    Foodies are drawn to the area with staples like Mango Mangeaux bistro, Mama Rosa’s Family...
    Frontier Airlines planes are parked at Orlando International Airport. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/TNS)

    Frontier Airlines offers nonstop flights from Norfolk to Dallas-Fort Worth

    By Sandra J. Pennecke
    May 23, 2025 at 4:25 p.m.
    This week, the carrier began to offer nonstop flights two days a week to Dallas...
    An open concept kitchen is shown with a shiplap navy detail island and white shaker cabinets with white quartz countertops. (File photo courtesy of  VB Homes)

    Flooring, countertop supplier opens East Coast distribution hub in Suffolk

    By Sandra J. Pennecke
    May 23, 2025 at 2:49 p.m.
    MSI's 548,000-square-foot facility at 120 Westport Parkway marks a $61.6 million investment in the city...
    Too Good to Go, a worldwide app-based service that connects local food businesses with surplus food to consumers at a fraction of the retail cost, launched in Hampton Roads on May 21. (Courtesy of Too Good to Go)

    Hampton Roads users of this app can buy discounted surprise food bags from restaurants, stores

    By Sandra J. Pennecke
    May 23, 2025 at 5:26 p.m.
    It works like this: Restaurants, stores, farmers markets and food trucks list their unsold excess...
    Virginia Beach-based architectural and engineering firm Clark Nexsen plans to merge with Maryland-based company, Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson. (Courtesy of Clark Nexsen)

    Virginia Beach architecture firm Clark Nexsen to merge with larger Maryland-based company

    By Sandra J. Pennecke
    May 21, 2025 at 4:15 p.m.
    As part of the merger, Clark Nexsen’s approximate 325 employees will join JMT’s more than...
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