The Appomattox River Water Authority voted yesterday to ease water restrictions for part of Chesterfield County, all of Petersburg and Colonial Heights, and parts of Dinwiddie and Pr. George Counties.
The Petersburg City Council this week unanimously approved rezoning that will allow mixed-use retail and apartments in an old warehouse on Bank Street.
Yesterday,oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens spoke at Governor McDonnell’s Conference on Energy and gave some serious challenges to government on the state and federal level. Craig Carper reports.
The Family of Billy Lee Maxwell III is offering a reward for information that leads to an arrest in connection with his still unexplained death on Route 250 in Goochland.
The Petersburg Community Development Corporation is in the process of building 42 new town houses intended to be affordable for low and moderate income families.
Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the bombing of the USS Cole, and the ship’s crew and others commemorated the event at the Norfolk Naval Station. But as Charles Fishburne reports, many believe there is still unfinished business in the incident.
