Dominion Resources Inc. will raise the level of Lake Anna by 3 inches to mitigate the loss of water flowing to the North Anna and Pamunkey rivers if a...

Friends: Slain teen was not in pursuit Prosecution rests in Powhatan trial of two in Taliaferro killing Friends of Tahliek Taliaferro testified yesterday...

Requests revealed office’s disarray Uncashed checks in Goochland utilities agency led to changes Editor’s note: To mark Sunshine Week, each...

POWHATAN—Friends of Tahliek Taliaferro testified this morning that while the teenager may have wanted to fight Joseph “Joey” Parrish,...

Bravado and six rounds from a semi-automatic rifle June 24 ended the long-simmering feud between Joseph “Joey” Parrish Jr. and Tahliek Taliaferro....

MeadWestvaco Corp. is planning to close a manufacturing plant in Louisa County, eliminating 171 jobs, as the packaging company continues to restructure...

Ex-state policeman facing new counts In addition to January charge, he’ll face 12 more counts of sexual abuse A former Virginia State Police captain...

Historic school gets grant Goochland’s Second Union gets $50,000 for preservation, museum A $50,000 grant will help restore a piece of black history...

Ex-Howard coach gets 14-year term A former college soccer coach will spend 14 years in prison for using a computer to solicit sex from an investigator...

No bond for woman accused of hiding body in Louisa well A judge in Louisa County Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court ordered a woman accused...

Belle R.T. Matthews dies at 90 She began teaching career in two-room Powhatan school in 1940 and retired in 1978 During the early part of the 38 years...

Attorney cleared of wrongdoing He was accused of threatening witness in Louisa murder case Louisa County authorities have ruled as unfounded an allegation...

Reginal Cody Bowles had been missing for a long time when two investigators visited his girlfriend Dec. 16 at the couple’s home in Mineral. One told...

The Cumberland County school system is proposing a $16.6 million budget, Superintendent James Thornton says. The 2009-10 budget adopted by the School Board...

The Chesterfield County school system is considering having the state conduct an efficiency review of its noninstructional operations. Last night, the...

Dominion Virginia Power has shut down one of its two nuclear reactors at its North Anna power plant in Louisa County for refueling. Unit 1 was shut down...

When people started asking what had become of Reginal Cody Bowles, missing since at least early 2007, his live-in girlfriend gave vastly different explanations,...

It’s important for assessors and commissioners to do a reassessment right. Their job is to determine the fair-market value of real estate—and...

A look at localities that reassessed residential and commercial properties this year: Chesterfield County: In all, the county’s tax base grew 1 percent....

The real estate slump isn’t catching up with local property tax assessments, which are essentially unchanged. The counties of Henrico, Chesterfield...