With ideas big and small, community supporters began lining up yesterday to find the money to rebuild the playground at George Mason Elementary School...

Field day will go on, but the summer won’t be the same at George Mason Elementary School in Richmond after an early-morning fire destroyed the playground....

The community development corporation led by a finalist for Richmond’s top administrative post is the subject of an audit that is expected to be...

Richmond could save $411,500 per year if it consolidates its grass-cutting and other grounds maintenance, according to the city auditor. City Auditor Umesh...

A man died this morning in Hopewell after police found him injured in the 100 block of South 16th Avenue. The victim, Mitchell McBee, 27, was taken just...

With temperatures and water levels high, a rash of recent rescues, and the year’s first river-related death during the weekend, the Richmond fire...

James Woody found the perfect metaphor for a $15,000 check to the quartet of health-care centers he operates for people with little or no insurance in...

Motorists driving past Virginia Commonwealth University’s Monroe Park campus should expect delays over the next 10 days while high school graduations...

An admitted crack cocaine dealer who authorities accused of being the lookout in the 2006 robbery and slaying of a well-known Petersburg businessman was...

finalist for chief administrative officer in Richmond currently president/chief executive officer of Austin Revitalization Authority in Texas was principal...

Ernest Rosenthal was a survivor. When he was about 8 years old, he came to the United States with his mother from Limburg, Germany, leaving his father...

Richmond’s Capitol Square—the grassy hilltop home to the General Assembly, state office buildings and the Executive Mansion—may be good...

During a recent break-in, Richmond police summoned by a burglar alarm were able to arrive on the scene quickly enough to find the intruder still inside....

Conservation of Richmond’s Reedy Creek ecosystem will receive a big boost today with a federal grant to curb pollution in the South Side watershed....

Beanie Babies. Cabbage Patch Kids. Tickle Me Elmo. The names may conjure up visions of people standing in line, begging and cajoling sales clerks in the...

Richmond Mayor Dwight C. Jones has declared himself intrigued by the idea of a Shockoe Bottom with high-speed rail, a bus-transfer center, black heritage...

John M. Lewis Jr. wants to transform the bus line into a regional public transportation force that rapidly moves passengers.

Last year, Tony Borst’s summer on the river ended poorly. Bludgeoned with a baseball bat in the middle of the night and left in the coals of a fire...

Richmond Mayor Dwight C. Jones’ administration is looking to reassign nine employees to avoid layoffs as part of next year’s budget. As the...

On a balmy day in April 1977, Gov. Mills E. Godwin and a bevy of prison officials, some dressed in seersucker suits, performed a ribbon-cutting ceremony...