The Virginia Department of Transportation will hold informational meetings about the state’s new secondary street acceptance requirements in Hanover...

Want to experience an authentic British tea and watch a fashion show straight from the disco era at the same time? Ashland resident Carolyn Peart has organized...

The Hanover County Planning Commission last night unanimously deferred a vote on whether a historic home can be razed. It also recommended approval with...

Melissa Lett will graduate in June from Lee-Davis High School—50 years after her grandfather, Gayle Apperson, earned his diploma from the school....

A proposed development off Cool Spring Road got the go-ahead last night from the Hanover County Board of Supervisors. The board unanimously approved plans...

An issue over the razing of a historic Hanover County home comes before the Planning Commission tonight. Oak Forest, off Rural Point Road, was built around...

A proposed development off Cool Spring Road got the go-ahead last night. The Hanover County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved plans for Cool Spring...

Melissa Mitchem, a second-year teacher at Falling Creek Elementary School, has been eager for her fifth-graders to take their Standards of Learning tests...

While the average taxpayer may recoil when he hears the word “audit,“ he might embrace it when applied to local governments and how they spend...

The number of people killed in motorcycle crashes this week in the Richmond area climbed to three with the deaths Thursday night of a husband and wife...

The Virginia Department of Transportation has awarded seven highway contracts, worth about $5.5 million, for construction and maintenance projects in central...

The 373 Hanover County students in this year’s elementary strings program will be the last group of children to benefit from a music program that...

The challenge of playing away from home is about to become more daunting for many high school sports teams in the Central Region. Travel could be affected...

Four developments totaling more than 1,300 residential units and at least 850,000 square feet of commercial space could dramatically alter the landscape...

A veteran Henrico County police officer has filed a lawsuit alleging that the county’s police chief, top prosecutor and other law-enforcement officials...

Central Region high schools don’t require their athletes to pay to play. Most local activities directors hope they never have to. “I’ve...

The first step to make the 2010 census as accurate as possible is being taken. Actually, it’s quite a few steps. In the Richmond area, temporary...

A federal appeals court has ordered the Virginia attorney general’s office to file a replacement brief, with “proper citations,“ defending...

Twenty Hanover County residents addressed the Board of Supervisors last night during a public hearing on the county’s proposed budget of $394 million...

The Hanover Youth Service Council (HYSC) is seeking middle and high school students interested in community service and leadership. The deadline to apply...