Factiva offers full-text, from thousands of sources from all over the world, in 22 languages. The closest thing to news local to Virginia in Factiva is the Washington Post.
Not a searchable database. Member of the Institute for Nonprofit News since 2014, the mission of Charlottesville Tomorrow is to provide "non-partisan information and research on land use, transportation, community design and public education" for the Charlottesville-Albemarle community. See their topic list.
Don't forget to check out our databases with national news. Virginia news will be in there, too! America's Historical Newspapers and Accessible Archives databases might be particularly helpful.
The Daily Progress is Charlottesville's local paper. Currently the digital edition covers 1892 to 1964. It provides scans only, no full text searching. Offered by UVA and the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library.
The Reflector, an African-American newspaper printed in Charlottesville from 1933-1935, is a source for understanding the lives of Charlottesville's African Americans during the Jim Crow period. From UVA's Virginia Center for Digital History.
Virginia Chronicle is the Library of Virginia's online newspaper database and repository, and contains content from 70 Virginia papers. Coverage varies with each title, but most titles span the late 19th to early 20th century.