The Progress-Index is an award-winning, daily newspaper and website serving Virginia's Tri-Cities area of Petersburg, Hopewell and Colonial Heights, along with the counties of Dinwiddie and Prince George. Our team of locally based reporters cover breaking news, public safety, business development, food and drink, investigative and explanatory journalism, and more.

News is published regularly online almost every day, and in the daily print edition and eNewspaper. We also send a Daily Briefing newsletter, which goes out daily at around 6 a.m. and readers can subscribe to here .

When was The Progress-Index founded?

The Progress-Index's history dates to the middle of the 19th century.

On July 4, 1865, almost three months after the end of the American Civil War, two newspapers began publi

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