Members of the U.S. Armed Forces, veterans and their families often qualify for special tax benefits. An IRS news release describes some of the most common deductions and exclusions and tells where to get more information.

Fauquier Health has agreed to a joint venture with LifePoint Hospitals The proposed partnership will provid resources and support to allow Fauquier Health to expand and enhance its services, invest in its facilities and new technology, and improve its efforts to recruit and retain needed physicians.

Congressmen Gerry Connolly and Jim Moran have introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives to study extending Metrorail into the Woodbridge area of Prince William County, the US 1 corridor of southern Fairfax County, and the Centreville area in western Fairfax County.

Dominion Virginia Power and Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative announced on Feb. 28, 2013, that the utilities are seeking community input on plans to upgrade transmission lines serving Fauquier and Prince William counties to improve reliability.

NOVEC employees and contract crews are prepared to restore electric service if snow-heavy trees and branches fall onto power lines and knock out power.

Due to the impending snow event, the City of Manassas will declare a snow emergency effective at 8 p.m. tonight, Tuesday, March 5. Vehicles parked along designated snow emergency routes will be subject to towing and fines.

Students here and around the world will be tuning in to a Webcast this Friday, March 8, for a program on wetlands and why they matter to migratory birds, filmed in Panama by Prince William County Schools staff.

By 4 a.m. Wednesday, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) says it will deploy more than 4,000 salt trucks and plows throughout northern Virginia in preparation for up to a foot of wet, heavy snow.

Del. Richard L. Anderson (R-Prince William) will join nine other citizens on the newly-created Virginia Commission on Military Installations and Defense Activities, according to an Executive Order that Governor Bob McDonnell issued over the weekend.