Wal-Mart has filed for the rezoning of a 53-acre parcel of land in eastern Powhatan County, making official their intention to build there. The retailer,...

Charles Dallas Green Sr., vice chairman of the Powhatan County Board of Supervisors, died Friday morning in a Richmond hospital. He was 63. He had been...

Forensic anthropologists at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington will try to determine the cause of death of an Amelia County man. The state medical...

A 19-year-old Richmond man has been convicted in Louisa County of soliciting sex from a minor. Robert Cox was arrested in October in a Louisa undercover...

Sometimes regionalism starts at Starbucks. Every other Monday, Chesterfield County’s Midlothian District Supervisor Daniel A. Gecker and Richmond...

Rice Jamerson A runaway killer arrested by state police last year told a Henrico County judge this week that he killed his live-in girlfriend in a jealous...

When: Gates open at 8 a.m. today and tomorrow; most exhibits close at 6 p.m.   Cost: $10 for general admission; $8 for guests ages 55 and older; free...

About 30,000 people are expected to venture to eastern Goochland County this weekend for the 18th Field Day of the Past, an event known for its unique...

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

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

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...

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

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

Dawn Smythers was shot in the head by her husband, Forrest Smythers Jr., in January. A Louisa County jury yesterday found a 54-year-old man guilty of murdering...

Goochland County authorities are looking for the people responsible for vandalizing a local church and the historic black school on its property but are...

When President Barack Obama urges America’s students today to “write your own destiny” by working hard in school, thousands of students...

What? Parents are protesting an American president’s message that their children study hard and stay in school? Some school systems, cowed by grumbling...

Reinforcing its interest in a Powhatan County location, Wal-Mart has filed a traffic-impact analysis with the county and the Virginia Department of Transportation....