A residential swimming pool where a 2-year-old Chesterfield County boy drowned this week did not have the required permits and was in violation of building...

Hazing charges against eight current and former Virginia State University students will be dismissed if they help prepare and attend on-campus educational...

Ashland Farmers’ Market, 101 Thompson St., Ashland, 798-9219. 9 a.m.-noon Saturdays through November.   Byrd House Market, behind William Byrd...

Pools are a place for relaxation and fun during the warm summer months. But hidden dangers lurk beneath those refreshing waters. From 2002 to 2006, there...

Jennifer Shields, a 15-year-old rising sophomore at Clover Hill High School, read the Braille version of the 784-page “Harry Potter and the Deathly...

More than a dozen of the area’s top educators and business and civic leaders met yesterday to begin work on a new approach to education in central...

Police are pooling their information and developing what they describe as good leads as the number of violent robberies of small businesses grows across...

For the first time in more than 20 years, Ukrop’s Super Markets Inc. no longer commands the dominant spot for local grocery sales as increasing competition...

Prince George County police think one man likely committed three recent robberies of convenience stores there and in Chesterfield County. “It’s...

Police are calling yesterday’s drowning of a 2-year-old Chesterfield County boy a “very unfortunate accident” that did not involve any...

Creating Chesterfield County’s future will take 18 months, 32 citizen leaders, plenty of public input and a little short of $1 million. Last night,...

Chesterfield County’s comprehensive plan steering committee met tonight for the first time to develop a long-range guideline for growth. It will...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. opened a hiring center in Chesterfield County to find people to work at its newest Richmond-area store The world’s largest retailer...

A man charged with raping a woman whose husband is accused of arranging the encounter on Craigslist appeared in a North Carolina court yesterday and was...

Richmond is a business town. From large corporations such as Altria, CarMax and Owens & Minor to mom-and-pop stores and service companies, the area’s...

More than 600 young people in the Richmond area will go to work this summer because of a big boost in funding from the federal stimulus program. The newly...

Billy McGuire and a couple of Richmond-area buddies plan to see America the old-fashioned way this summer: puttering along back roads in their Model T...

As Chesterfield County launches its first attempt to comprehensively shape countywide growth, the full force of decades of liberal development has yet...

Kathleen Jennette was 17 when she dropped out of high school. It was 1956, her mother was ill and help was needed on the family’s Chesterfield County...