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It took only three months to plan and execute, and by all accounts, the first Manassas Bee Festival was a resounding success.
About 2,500 attended the day-long event held this past Saturday at Liberia House Planation.
Rep. Gerry Connolly today says he wants to shine a light on the proceedings of the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Democrat, who represents portions of Prince William and Fairfax counties in Virginia’s 11th Congressional District, will reintroduce his Cameras in the Courtroom Act.
A Manassas man was killed on Tuesday in a motorcycle crash in Warrenton.
The victim, 22-year-old Jose Manuel A. Delgado Alva, was killed while riding his motorcycle on Route 29, near an Outback Steakhouse.
Gov. Ralph Northam today marked the 50th anniversary of the state’s most current constitution, a document that outlines how liberty and justice for all Virignins should be delivered.
The state’s constitution was rewritten in 1971—the old document, which dated back to the early 1900s, disenfranchised blacks and prevented school integration.
Supervisor Margaret Franklin will hold a town hall meeting on Wednesday.
Franklin, who represents the Woodbridge Magisterial District on the Prince William Board of County Supervisors, will discuss multiple transportation projects, including a briefing on the North Woodbridge Small Area Plan.
A smoker is to blame for a house fire that damaged three townhomes Monday afternoon.
We were the first to tell you yesterday the blaze broke out at 12:45 p.m. at a home in the 400 block of Potomac Hills Drive. No one was injured, but 10 people were displaced.
Michelle Davis Younger delivered a “state of the city” address to the Manassas City Council.
The speech delivered Monday night focused largely on herself, her election to the City Council last fall, and what she’s been up to since then. “When I was elected in November 2020, the city saw a positive…and, yes, it was a positive and tremendous change,” said Davis Younger.
Virginia public radio station WCVE in Richmond retracted a column posted to its website today — a fact check piece about former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe.
The piece, which was also shared by statewide news aggregator Va News from the Virginia Public Access Project, called out McAuliffe for falsely claiming his Republican opponent, Glenn Youngkin, praised him during a panel discussion the Youngkin hosted in 2018, on which McAuliffe was a panelist.
Police in Prince William County is investigating a road rage incident that led to a firearm being brandished near a local high school.
The 24-year-old female victim was driving near Colgan High School on Monday afternoon, at the intersection of Route 234 and Hoadly Road near Dale City. A sedan began following her and driving aggressively around her. At one point, while the victim was stopped, the driver of the blue sedan pulled up and brandished a gun, police said.
A total of 10 people are displaced, and one person injured after a fire ripped through a Stafford County townhome community today.
Crews were called to the 400 block of Potomac Hills Drive in the northern section of the county just before 1 p.m. They found flames shooting the roof of a two-story townhome.
