House and Senate General Assembly money committees announced this week that the state budget will include language to study extending Metro’s Blue Line to Lorton, Woodbridge, Potomac Mills, and Quantico along with enhanced transit on U.S. 1 in Prince William County.

History was made Feb. 19 as the first woman Chair of the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee presented the Senate budget. SB 29 and SB 30 were adopted with bipartisan support. Now a committee will resolve the differences between the House of Delegates and the Virginia Senate approved budgets.

Prince William Board of County Supervisors will hold a Special Meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020 at 7:30 p.m. to review options regarding the construction of the animal shelter and to obtain public feedback on the project.

The P-Nats Minor League baseball team that moved from Prince William to Fredericksburg for the 2020 season is getting a warm welcome in its new community.

The House of Delegates Appropriations Committee released and passed its 2020 Budget on Feb. 17, according to a report from Del. Hala Ayala of Lake Ridge, who represents part of the Prince William County area. This includes the Governor’s Budget as well as numerous budget amendments presented to and approved by the Appropriations Committee, she said.

The University of Virginia School of Medicine reports it has received $146.3 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health in fiscal 2019, the largest amount in the school’s history. In one notable milestone, the federal Food and Drug Administration just approved an artificial pancreas developed at UVA to free people with type 1 diabetes from the painful ritual of daily needlesticks.

Prince William Virginia Cooperative Extension office (VCE) is conducting a situation analysis survey in the Greater Prince William community to find out how to structure its educational services to best meet the public's preferred delivery method.

FROM Prince William County Police arrest log for Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020.