The county hopes to reduce the price of up to 150 homes a year.
- On the agenda: Richmond final budget vote, Chesterfield and Hanover school boards
- Feds undo Federal Executive Institute decision in Charlottesville
- City audit finds Richmond Retirement System paid $550K to dead people
- US and China announce a deal to cut tariffs, temporarily easing trade war
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County officials agreed to target investments toward infrastructure.
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The Fredericksburg native uses sounds from nature to create folk music.
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Virginia Clean Economy Act, RGGI could face federal challenges.
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Pennycuff has been the interim leader since August 2024.
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The board met briefly Wednesday to unanimously approve a spending plan.
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Updated: Mayor Danny Avula’s fiscal 2026 budget allots $9.6M more — of the $30.8M requested.
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In 1989, Trump took out full-page newspaper ads demanding the death penalty "for roving bands of wild criminals." The Detroit Opera decided to program this work long before the presidential election.
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It can be tough to navigate relationships when our friends start having kids. This guide can help both parents and child-free folks figure out how to stay connected in a new life stage.
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President Trump is yet to broker an end to the war in Gaza. So the first big trip of his second term will focus on big investments instead.
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The incarcerated former Silicon Valley star is advising her partner on a new health tech startup. Holmes was convicted of defrauding investors in her blood-testing company Theranos.
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India and Pakistan on Saturday agreed to a ceasefire following U.S.-led talks to end the most serious military confrontation between the nuclear-armed rivals in decades.
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- Tara Roberts helps scuba divers uncover slave shipwrecks
- New Burying Ground honors enslaved labor at University of Richmond
- Museums, libraries and cultural groups grapple with federal humanities cuts
- ‘Idleness and boredom’: Virginia juvenile justice system strained by staffing shortages
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