For the second consecutive year, a record number of Virginia’s public schools have reached full accreditation after passing state tests in math,...

Area farmers markets Ashland Farmers’ Market, 101 Thompson St., Ashland, (804) 798-9219. 9 a.m.-noon Saturdays through November. Byrd House Market,...

The designation is part of a 20-year agreement signed two years ago in exchange for a one-time state appropriation of almost $2.4 million to help build...

Three members of the notorious MS-13 gang pleaded guilty yesterday to stabbing a man and leaving him for dead inside a Hispanic nightclub in Chesterfield...

Nearly 50 percent of public school and private school cafeterias in the Richmond area came out of unannounced Virginia Department of Health inspections...

Herbert T. Sr. and H B Robertson, owners; Horizon Homes of Virginia Inc., contractor; 2013 Libby Terrace, alterations, $192,500. Jack M. Parrish III, owner;...

120 had no critical violations during inspections conducted during the 2008-09 school year; and 93 had two or fewer total critical violations for the...

In this economy, even cheesecakes are downsizing. At Daystar Desserts Inc. in Hanover County, smaller and simpler cakes are part of a back-to-basics strategy...

Lee-Davis High School junior Haley Herbert doesn’t have a job yet, but when she’s ready, she has one waiting for her. Herbert is a second-year...

Goochland: $6 million to widen U.S. 250 (Broad Street Road).   Hanover: $4.8 million to replace the bridge over Interstate 95 at Lewistown Road....

The Richmond Area Metropolitan Planning Organization has allocated $20.8 million of federal stimulus money to three priority transportation projects in...

The families of the 17 sailors killed in the 2000 attack on the USS Cole are asking to reopen their lawsuit against Sudan in an effort to seek more money...

NORFOLK (AP)—The families of the 17 sailors killed in the 2000 attack on the USS Cole are asking to reopen their lawsuit against Sudan in an effort...

The Richmond Area Metropolitan Planning Organization will allocate $20.8 million of federal stimulus money to three transportation projects in Chesterfield,...

After twice beating breast cancer, Katherine “Kate” Talmage Homan, a 44-year-old mother of four from Hanover County, succumbed last week to...

A day after President Barack Obama’s televised remarks to students, area school officials yesterday were more supportive of his speech. That was...

Becky Lee, chief program officer at the YWCA of Richmond, recalled her reaction upon learning that entertainer Chris Brown’s punishment for assaulting...

Six parents involved with the Ashland Youth Recreation Association Inc. have filed a lawsuit against the organization’s officers, directors and commissioners...

The message yesterday was simple, and the kids seemed to get it: President Barack Obama implored the nation’s schoolchildren to take charge of their...

Dreary weather notwithstanding, students packed up and headed off to the first day of the new school year in the Richmond region today. it was a great...