Prince William County will continue collecting $50 from residents who apply for a concealed weapons permit.
In a move that some called a political stunt, Board of Supervisors Chairman Corey Stewart tried to lobby fellow Supervisors to order the court to stop collecting $40 of the fee charged in courthouses statewide.
Our list of closures for Monday, Feb. 15, 2016 (more…)
We’re looking at a wintry mess moving into our area for Presidents Day.
A winter storm watch is in effect starting tonight into tomorrow.
1 Million Cups — the group that brings an entrepreneurs to the stage each week to help them solve their challenge questions — turns two this week.
Based on the notion that entrepreneurs network and discover solutions over a million cups of coffee, the all-volunteer group of about 25 to 30 entrepreneurs meet each week at the Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas at 8:30 a.m. each Wednesday. They drink coffee, network, and swap ideas.
Fire crews in Woodbridge were called to a home on Melbourne Avenue, where they found a fire and a bedroom.
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If you’re already tired of the 2016 presidential campaign, just wait: The rhetoric is about to get a lot louder here in the Old Dominion.
Virginia continues to be a “purple” swing state, one that can easily go Democratic one year and see voters flip the script and put Republicans in office the next. To boot, every year in is an election year in Virginia, whether voters are putting candidates in local, state, or federal offices.
Snow showers should pass through the region this evening. While the showers will be light in nature, we all remember what happened last time the forecast called for “light snow.”
The snow should move through this evening late into the afternoon rush hour. Crews with the Virginia Department of Transportation will deploy snow plows to treat the roads early this afternoon, said VDOT Northern Virginia spokeswoman Jennifer McCord.
Morale among bus drivers at the region’s commuter transit agency is low.
It’s the kind of mood you would expect from employees if your bosses, the heads of the Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation, are heard in public, and in the media talking about a “doomsday scenario” where operations as you know them could come to an end.
A debris landfill in Dumfries will close in 2032, and give the town government up to $4 million in host fees.
The Town Council and the landfill reached an agreement this month on the closure of the 101-acre facility. The agreement comes after years of on again, off again negotiations between the two entities.
Suspects arrested in this case.
Prince William police are investigating a murder after human remains were found last month.
