Ryan Murphy

1 month ago | whro.org | Ryan Murphy

Warm seawater will likely drive another above-average hurricane season this year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday. Forecasters expect between 13 and 19 named tropical storms to form in the Atlantic Ocean between June 1 and November 30. Six to 10 will become full-blown hurricanes, with three to five eventually becoming major storms.

1 month ago | whro.org | Ryan Murphy

Land for residential development sold for an average of $47,500 per acre last year in the American Southeast, according to the latest survey from the Realtors Land Institute. That's by far the most expensive in the nation and more than twice that of most of the rest of the United States. Last year, Habitat for Humanity groups across the state, including here in Hampton Roads, had to suspend applications because they couldn’t afford to buy land to build on.

1 month ago | whro.org | Ryan Murphy

The Chesapeake Planning Commission recommended the City Council deny a rezoning request for a major data center project. Citing a lack of information on key questions like water usage and noise, the commission voted 6-1 against the project. The lone vote against denying approval was commissioner Michael Malone, who instead put a motion forward to delay the vote for 120 days to get answers to those questions. "It wasn't that I didn't support the data center, or that I did.

1 month ago | whro.org | Ryan Murphy

A Chesapeake developer has filed plans to build the first large-scale data center in Hampton Roads. Longtime developer Doug Fuller said the project is designed to handle computing for artificial intelligence applications and is made possible by tens of millions of dollars of new ultrafast internet infrastructure built by the city and region to lure tech businesses. But before Fuller’s plans were submitted to the city, opposition to the data center was already fomenting online.

1 month ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Ryan Murphy

typically bound for the East Coast . Ports officials around the nation have been ringing alarm bells. The head of the Port of Los Angeles said major American retailers have halted virtually all imports from China , which consumers could see reflected in sparse store shelves starting in June. Most of the broad set of tariffs announced by President Donald Trump in March, including those targeting the European Union, have been delayed until July.