The Prince William County Fair opens Friday, July 31, and runs through Saturday, August 8, at the fairgrounds on Dumfries Road in Manassas.
Gates open at 2 p.m. on opening day and most weekends, with weekday hours starting later on several nights. The nine-day event is one of Northern Virginia’s longest-running county fairs and a longtime summer tradition for local families.
“More than a week after a statewide injunction halted enforcement of Virginia’s new assault weapons ban, parts of the legal fight have entered a holding pattern as state and federal courts await guidance from the U.S. Supreme Court,” The Center Square reported. Washington County Circuit Judge Jeffrey L. Campbell expanded the injunction statewide on July 21 and later paused the case while the high court reviews similar bans in Illinois and Connecticut; the injunction stays in effect until further order or no later than 60 days after those decisions.
The law, which took effect July 1, prohibits future sales and transfers of certain semiautomatic firearms and magazines holding more than 15 rounds while allowing continued possession of those already owned. Most firearms dealers have resumed selling the affected items under the injunction, according to the Virginia Citizens Defense League, though a separate challenge in Lancaster County remains active with a hearing set for Aug. 21.
“President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced a $22.5 billion renovation of Washington Dulles International Airport that will end the use of the widely disliked ‘people movers,’ the mobile lounges that have been used for decades to shuttle travelers to and from the main terminal,” the Associated Press reported. The plan replaces them with a new U-shaped passenger train, a central walking tunnel, more moving walkways, new concourses, and an above-ground parking garage closer to the main terminal with space for 32,000 vehicles.
Located in northern Virginia and serving roughly 29 million passengers last year, Dulles is the region’s primary international gateway. Construction could begin next spring, funded by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, United Airlines, and other carriers through municipal bonds and airline contributions rather than federal dollars, according to officials. Congress would need to approve some aspects of the project.
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Fredericksburg residents just held a packed forum asking if they’re becoming the next Data Center Alley while Manassas learned the hard way that a bank inside the Brickyard facility wiped out millions in expected BPOL revenue under Virginia law.
Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center in Woodbridge recently hosted its intensive eight-week Student Nurse Apprentice Program, giving third-year nursing students hands-on clinical experience and one-on-one mentorship before their senior year of school.
The program follows an apprenticeship model in which each participant is paired with a dedicated registered nurse preceptor. Students work directly with patients alongside interdisciplinary healthcare teams and observe procedures and specialty care areas that often go beyond standard nursing school rotations.
A 16-year-old male was found dead along a wooded trail at Andrew Leitch Park in Woodbridge on July 28. Police said the death appears to have involved a self-inflicted injury, with no preliminary signs of foul play.
Also included in the latest reports from Prince William and Stafford counties are multiple juvenile arrests stemming from a knife-point robbery at a Woodbridge elementary school, an arrest in a July malicious wounding at a Sheetz, a shots-fired incident with a suspect still sought, the earlier Stafford armed robbery arrests, a DUI and a fraud case.
I recently spoke with Navya Tuteja, a 17-year-old rising senior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, about the free AI tool she built and launched called Raaha. The platform is designed to help neurodivergent job seekers figure out whether a role will actually fit how they work—before they hit “apply.”
Navya created Raaha after seeing the same problem play out again and again. Job descriptions, she told me, usually explain what employers want but almost never describe what the job will feel like day to day. For neurodivergent people, that gap often leads to applications that go nowhere or jobs that quickly become unsustainable.
Stafford County Public Schools has announced which schools will provide free breakfast and lunch to all students under the Community Eligibility Provision this school year.
Participating schools include Anne E. Moncure, Kate Waller Barrett, Widewater, Falmouth, Rocky Run and Falls Run elementary schools, Edward E. Drew Middle School, and the North Star and Rising Star Head Start programs. Students at these schools get meals at no cost with no application required.
All 23 Apple Federal Credit Union branches across Northern Virginia now accept Virginia Mobile ID for in-branch identity verification, according to a joint announcement from the credit union and the Virginia DMV on Wednesday.
Apple FCU is the first credit union on the East Coast to offer the digital credential network-wide and one of only three financial institutions nationwide doing so. Members can show a QR code from the free app instead of a physical ID. The digital option, already accepted at more than 350 TSA checkpoints and all Virginia DMV locations, rolled out in Northern Virginia earlier this year.
