Virginia State Police have provided 14 tips for safer driving when the weather is bad. Some are tips for operating the vehicle. Some are tips for keeping yourself safe in a bad weather situation.

The City of Manassas is declaring a Snow Emergency effective at 8 p.m. tonight, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014. This means that vehicles parked along designated snow emergency routes are subject to towing and fines.

Virginia Department of Transportation crews are aggressively pretreating roads throughout Prince William, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Arlington counties in advance of the heavy snow predicated for tonight. By midnight, almost 4,000 trucks will be staged along interstates, major roads and neighborhood streets

At its meeting on February 5, the Prince William County School Board approved Boundary Plan 1.1B for the new “Haymarket Drive” Elementary School recommended by the planning committee with two caveats.

Prince William County VA supervisor Frank Principi: "We are all motorists, walkers, or cyclists at one point or another. It’s time we learn to better share the road..We want to eliminate the ‘sidewalks to nowhere’ and increase safety so families are better connected to schools, churches, parks, shopping, and other amenities.”

Two meetings are scheduled for the public to learn more about strategies being considered to transform 25 miles of Interstate 66 between the Beltway and Haymarket. A Jan. 30 meeting is in Fairfax. A Feb. 5 meeting is in Prince William County.

After ceasing operations in the state 18 months ago, Carnival, the world’s largest cruise ship line, will resume sailing seasonally from Norfolk in the spring and fall of 2015.

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) selected Virginia Tech’s proposal to spearhead a regional research effort on the safest and most effective ways to incorporate Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into the existing airspace.