New Virginia State Police "Pathway to Trooper" program offers employment opportunities for interested 18–20-year-olds while they wait to apply to the Trooper Basic Session Academy.

Needs assessment over 10 months revealed that targeted Interventions and strategies are needed to address the local opioid crisis, This assessment identified gaps in services. In the Greater Prince William Region, there were 454 OUD deaths from 2018 to 2023. Nonfatal opioid-related overdoses have more than doubled since 2017. Overdoses are increasing among the 20-24 age group, adolescent females, and Black and Latino adults.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Nov. 1 that CMC Electronics, a leading global avionics manufacturer headquartered in Montreal with an additional site in Sugar Grove, Illinois, will invest $5 million to establish a new office and research and development facility in Reston. The new facility will create 89 new jobs.

Next spring, DOF will expand participation to 15 retail nurseries. In 2023, Throwing Shade VA was available at 10 locations and resulted in the sale of 5,500 native shrubs and trees being purchased (all at a discount, of course) and planted across Virginia.

“Virginia has lost a legend of public service whose legacy will be felt across the Commonwealth. Senator Frank Ruff has always believed that his public service was about finding good policy solutions to improve the lives of Virginians in rural communities.

Fauquier County Department of Agricultural Development and the Fauquier Livestock Exchange Board of Directors have been awarded a planning grant to aid in the development of a new abattoir in Marshall. The $9,800 grant, from the Governor’s Agriculture and Forestry Industries Development (AFID) Fund Planning Grant Program, will help to establish a management structure and strategic plan for the operation of the new meat-processing facility

Governor Glenn Youngkin hasy announced that Col. Gary T. Settle, Superintendent of the Virginia State Police, will retire effective Feb. 1, 2025, after nearly four decades of dedicated service to the Commonwealth.

"Sustainable forestry provides so many benefits…clean air and water, economic development, wildlife habitat, timber, and recreation,” said Rob Farrell, State Forester of Va. Dept. of Forestry (DOF). “Forest Products Week celebrates Virginia’s working forests, thousands of professionals and partners who work in them, and the environmental benefits and sustainable products they provide for all of us."