Hundreds are expected to attend an Oct. 7 discussion about how Virginia treats incarcerated and detained men and women.

Concern is growing over the dwindling money in a family crisis fund that Richmond created to provide direct cash payments.

Richmond city employees could soon have the option of becoming members of the Virginia Retirement System.

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

Richmond is taking a swing at boosting the supply of housing in hopes of stabilizing the soaring costs that are making it hugely expensive to rent or own.

Members of the Richmond Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority are doing their part to help area residents register to vote in the upcoming General Assembly elections on Tuesday, Nov. 7.

A crime-reduction initiative that Mayor Levar M. Stoney has spurned apparently will come to Richmond after all. The city’s housing authority is partnering with the nonprofit REAL LIFE to implement the same initiative in Richmond that is credited with dramatically …

A planned 150-bed winter shelter for Richmond’s homeless population may not open until Dec. 1, or well after freezing temperatures could hit the city, it has been learned.

The next election is the General Election on Tuesday, Nov. 7, and early voting for this election begins tomorrow and ends Nov. 4.

Faye Belgrave, Ph.D., a respected scholar, author and equity advocate, has been named vice president and chief diversity officer at Virginia Commonwealth University, effective Oct. 23.

In a bid to ramp up retention of current workers and recruiting of new workers to fill hundreds of vacancies, City Hall plans to improve benefits offered to employees in the area of workforce training and home purchase assistance. Topping …

In an effort to enable more underprivileged students to attend Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School, Richmond Community High School and Open High, the Richmond School Board approved changes for admissions to those schools on Monday.

Richmond Public Schools recently announced two new interim principals.

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

The family of a man who died while handcuffed and pinned to the floor for about 11 minutes as he was being admitted to a Virginia psychiatric hospital has reached an $8.5 million settlement with the state and the county …