WOODBRIDGE — Sentara officials won approval from the Health Systems Board of Northern Virginia for a PET/CT scanner at its Northern Virginia Medical center in Woodbridge.

The proposal now heads from the Northern Virginia Regional Commission to Richmond for a hearing in front of the state’s health commissioner on May 22.


MANASSAS — City officials are set to release $2.2 million bond monies to fund the design of the new public safety center on Grant Avenue. 

Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, PC, (HOK) was chosen as the architects of the new building. The firm recently completed buildings in Fairfax County like the county’s public safety headquarters; the Fairfax County McConnell Public Safety Transportation & Operations Center. 


STAFFORD — Stafford leaders want to take another comprehensive look at county roadways with the formation of a new working group.

The task force will examine congested areas and unsafe corridors in the county that are in need of improvement and will be made up of members of the Board of County Supervisors who will also appoint members to the group.


RICHMOND – Population is booming in Northern Virginia and shrinking in many rural localities in the southern and southwestern parts of the state, according to data released Thursday by the U.S Census Bureau.

The population of the city of Falls Church grew 5.2 percent between July 1, 2016, and July 1, 2017, the data showed. That was more than any U.S. county with at least 10,000 residents. (The Census Bureau puts Virginia’s cities in the same geographic category as counties.)


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