The community is invited to attend a VDOT public hearing on the proposed signal at Rippon Boulevard and Blackburn Road Intersection project on Dec. 6 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Freedom High School, 15201 Neabsco Mills Rd., Woodbridge, 22191.

Virginia State Parks Director Craig Seaver was quoted as saying in a news release, “The weather will be great, state parks will look beautiful, and it will be a wonderful time for people to focus on what’s really important – family, health and making memories that last a lifetime.”

Oyster farmers are as important to Virginia agriculture as the farmers who plant corn and soybeans or raise beef or chicken on dry land. While all of agriculture contributes $91 billion a year to Virginia’s economy, the dockside value of the oyster harvest alone was $35.8 million in 2016, up from $28 million in 2014.

According to Lauren Mollerup, the district maintenance engineer for VDOT, this winter looks like it's shaping up to mirror last year's weather. "We're likely to have a winter, according to the National Weather Service, similar to what we had last year."

DRPT, in collaboration with Amtrak, the City of Roanoke, and Norfolk Southern, has worked to bring intercity passenger rail service back to the Roanoke area for the first time in four decades. The Northeast Regional service will provide a same-seat trip to and from Roanoke and to Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City, and other cities along the Northeast Corridor.

More than $265,000 is going back into the pockets of hundreds of Virginians who took out loans from Mr. Amazing Loans, a Las Vegas, Nevada based Internet lender, according to Attorney General Mark R. Herring.

A project to extend Interstate 95 Express Lanes by two miles in Stafford County, adding new northbound and southbound ramps, will open to traffic ahead of schedule on Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017.

rince William Board of County Supervisors recently awarded a $39-million contract to Branch and Associatesf to expand the Prince William-Manassas Regional Adult Detention Center by 204 beds. Construction is expected to start in November