Lane closures for milling and paving will occur nightly on portions of Featherstone Road and Blackburn Road from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. Monday, Sept. 12 through Friday, Sept. 16, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation.

Natural Bridge, one of the iconic and historic sites in the United States, and 1343 surrounding acres will become the 37th Virginia State Park during a public ceremony at 10 a.m. on Sept. 24.

Attorneys for Virginia House of Delegates Speaker William J. Howell (R-Stafford), Senate Majority Leader Thomas K. Norment, Jr. (R-James City), and four Virginia voters say they will file a contempt motion today, Aug. 31, against Governor Terence R. McAuliffe (D) with the Supreme Court of Virginia.

Lane closures for milling and paving will occur nightly on part of Shoppers Best Way from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 23 through Thursday, Aug. 25, and on portions of Featherstone Road and Blackburn Road from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 28 through Thursday, Sept. 1, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation.

School Division staff work hard to ensure the safety of students on buses, but their safety also depends largely on the willingness of motorists to follow laws concerning school buses.

The State Central Committee of the Republican Party of Virginia on Aug. 27 selected a primary as the method of nomination for Governor, Lt. Governor, and Attorney General in 2017.

Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS), lead state agency for regulating pesticides, encourages consumers to manage their mosquito risk through habitat modification, personal protection practices and careful use of pesticides.

Virginia students again outperformed their peers nationwide by significant margins on the ACT in 2016 as the number of high school seniors in VIrginia taking the college-readiness examination continued to grow.