Nearly two dozen signs designed to decrease panhandling and distracted driving recently popped up at busy intersections in Richmond.

A hoax that created a small uproar over the Richmond leg of the $266 million regional Fall Line Trail is being dispelled.

Chesterfield County has been awarded a $755,523 grant through the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Develop- ment’s Virginia Telecommunication Initiative (VATI) to support the county’s partnership with All Points Broadband and Dominion Energy to develop broadband availability countywide.

When making remarks about the new Richmond High School of the Arts last Saturday, Jason Kamras’ words were noticeably cheerful and upbeat.

Richard “Rick” Edwards is now the city’s 21st chief of police.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson announced Saturday that he will step down as president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the Chicago-based civil rights group he founded more than 50 years ago.

Judge Roger L. Gregory is now the former chief judge of the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Sgt. Maj. Keith L. Craig, who was raised in Yantley, Ala., joined the Army in August 1984 at age 17.

City Council is on track to create the city’s first Public Utilities & Services Commission to review issues involving public utilities and pass a modified ban on lions, tigers, alligators and other “exotic or wild animals.”

The Richmond and Henrico County health districts are offering testing at the following locations:

The Virginia NAACP on Tuesday called on Gov. Glenn Youngkin to establish clear and publicly available criteria for restoring the voting rights of convicted felons who have served their time, saying the system now is secretive and could discriminate against …

The school-to-prison pipeline is the focus of an upcoming discussion, “Education Not Incarceration: Stopping the Prison Pipeline,” that will be hosted by Coming Together Virginia on Thursday, July 20,rom 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Branch Museum on 2501 Monument …

A veteran social worker has lost her job with Richmond Public Schools after a 20-month fight.

The Richmond Executive-Chesterfield County Airport is hosting a community school supplies drive for Chesterfield County Public Schools students through Aug. 11.

Detroit’s newly hired emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, stood before reporters in March 2013 and issued a warning to city creditors, unions, vendors and others: “Don’t make me go to bankruptcy court. You won’t enjoy it.”