The helpline is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and has interpretation services for 160 languages. Farmers can call or text 833-897-2474 to speak directly with a healthcare professional. Crisis specialists have access to a Virginia specific curated database of agricultural and health resources.

Haymarket's Mill Creek Road (Route 630) between Waterfall Road (Rt. 601) and Berkeley Drive (Rt. 2010) will be closed to through traffic, weather permitting, from 8 p.m. Monday, Aug. 15 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 17 to replace culvert pipes, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation.

The sales tax holiday starts at 12:01 a.m. on Aug. 5 and wraps up on Aug. 7 at 11:59 p.m. During this period, Virginians can buy a number of items in stores, online, by mail order, and by telephone without paying sales tax. See list below.

The Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (NVTA) is seeking public comment on the area's long-range transportation plan, known as TransAction. Goals are to enhance mobility, increase accessibility and improve resiliency by planning for an equitable, sustainable and safe multimodal transportation network. Proposed are 429 projects totaling $75+ billion.

Local Food Purchase Assistance cooperative agreement grant funds will increase the amount of local farm products purchased for distribution to underserved families, and in doing so will benefit Virginia's agricultural industry while strengthening our local food systems," said VDACS Commissioner Joseph Guthrie.

Northbound Route 29 (Lee Highway) will have single-lane closures between White Post Road and Paddington Lane, weather permitting, from 10 p.m. Sunday, July 31 to 5 a.m. Monday, Aug. 1 to implement a traffic shift, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation. During that time, the northbound Route 29 lanes between White Post Road and Paddington Lane will be shifted to the left until this fall.

A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 22,233,323 visitors to 21 national parks in Virginia spent over $1.2 billion in Virginia in 2021. That spending resulted in 18,000 jobs and had a cumulative benefit to the state economy of nearly $2 billion.

There were 124,878 more Virginians employed in May 2022 than there were in May 2021, an increase of 3.5 percent year-over-year. Although recent trends are encouraging, Virginia has yet to recover more than 133,000 jobs that were lost during the pandemic