Daniel Alexander from Florida has been hired as the newly created position of first Deputy County Executive of Public Safety for Prince William County. he Jan. 6 announcement follows what a county news release described as "a national/international search that involved 80 applicants and a competitive hiring process." His expected start date is Feb. 1.

VDOT crews are ready for snow forecasted across northern Virginia from late Thursday evening through Friday morning. Additional concerns for this snowstorm are temperatures that are consistently below freezing, as well as predicted wind gusts.

On Wednesday,. Jan. 5, 2022, the suspect Prince William County Police had been looking for in connection to the shooting that was reported to have occurred at 2700 Potomac Mills Cl. in Woodbridge (22192) on Nov. 18, 2021 was arrested.

Dec. 17, 2021, detectives with the Prince William County Police Department's Property Crimes Bureau identified three juveniles involved in a series of commercial burglaries that occurred during the early morning hours on Dec. 15 at several Woodbridge pharmacies.

As the Omicron variant spreads and COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations surge, Virginia health officials and hospital leaders are urging people with asymptomatic or mild coronavirus cases, or other non-serious illnesses, to avoid unnecessary trips to already burdened hospital emergency departments.

Because none of the authorized COVID-19 vaccines in the United States contain the live virus that causes COVID-19, the vaccine cannot make you sick with COVID-19, or make you Test positive.

With COVID-19 cases surging and as part of UVA Health’s continued commitment to protect the health of its patients, team members, and communities-at-large, visitors are not permitted in inpatient units, emergency departments, outpatient clinics and outpatient procedural areas at UVA Prince William Medical Center in Manassas, UVA Haymarket Medical Center and UVA Culpeper Medical Center, The restrictions began at 8 p.m., Dec. 30.

The Police Department is requesting anyone in the Magnolia Court neighborhood in Manassas who was surveillance footage capturing the time frame between 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. on December 27, 2021 to contact city police.