Renuka Rayasam is a POLITICO reporter. Nikuyah Walker, Charlottesville’s first Black female mayor, is throwing in the towel. She came to power five months after the infamous rally of August 2017 ...

It was late August in Charlottesville, Va., two years ago this month, with temperatures pushing into the high 80s. But what then-Mayor Mike Signer remembers most vividly about those days is the cold.

Charlottesville Mayor Juandiego Wade has announced he will be retiring from his job in neighboring Albemarle County, where he ...

Charlottesville Mayor Michael Signer called on the Virginia state legislature on Friday to convene a special session to push for new laws that would give local governments power to decide the ...

RICHMOND — Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker on Wednesday tweeted a poem she'd penned about the college town she leads, one so spare that it approached haiku, and yet abundantly shocking.

Amazingly, this is not all. Walker, who became Charlottesville’s first black mayor in 2017, posted a lengthier, more fleshed-out version of her “poem” later Wednesday afternoon, committing ...

A post written by Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker on her Facebook page has triggered an onslaught of nationwide commentary and media coverage. The original post, which went live Wednesday ...

151; -- The mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia, wants the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee removed from the city’s center, he said in a statement today, explaining that such “monuments ...

Nikuyah Walker, the first Black woman to be mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia, has posted poetry on Twitter and Facebook that has drawn national attention for descriptions of a picturesque ...

In a new book, Michael Signer, the former mayor of Charlottesville, recounts the months leading up to the rally, including the decision to allow it to continue. In Cry Havoc: Charlottesville and ...

The mayor of Charlottesville suggested Sunday that President Trump has created an environment in which white supremacists feel welcome to publicly promote their views. In an interview on CBS's ...

A day after a tense white nationalist gathering in his city turned deadly, Charlottesville, Virginia, Mayor Michael Signer expressed his displeasure with how Donald Trump carried himself during ...