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WILLIAMSBURG – Williamsburg’s interim city manager proposed a $121 million budget that maintains the current real estate tax rate while hiking the water rate. The proposed budget – which is 17% higher than last year’s proposed $103.3 million – includes $56.03 million for the general fund and $41.63 million for capital improvement projects.

SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Charges of malicious wounding and attempted murder against a man in connection to an August 2025 incident on Whaleyville Boulevard in Suffolk were certified to a grand jury Tuesday in Suffolk General District Court. Joseph Barnes, 47, was arrested back in August 2025 on several charges, including malicious wounding and attempted […]

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Authorities in Newport News are working to identify a body discovered in a lake near Riverside Regional Medical Center, as community members anxiously await answers and hope it is not a missing 16-year-old girl. Police said the body was recovered shortly after 2 p.m. Monday...

Norfolk Fire-Rescue responded to multiple elevator rescues in Downtown Norfolk Sunday, according to a post from the department on Facebook.

Looking for something useful or fun without spending a dime? Hampton neighbors are giving away all kinds of free items this week — from furniture to firewood and even a piano!

Williamsburg won’t move forward with a plan to vet off-campus student rentals after it received tepid feedback from landlords. “There has been great support, but it seems like it's waning,” Mayor Doug Pons said during Monday’s council meeting. “Certainly don’t want to jump into a program that’s not going to be successful.

Looking for something useful or fun without spending a dime? Here are a few free items currently being offered by neighbors around Newport News, VA. From home appliances to kids’ play gear, there’s a little something for everyone.

A family is healing as the man responsible for their loved one’s murder in Newport News in 2023 learned his sentence.

A man was hospitalized after a crush injury on Newport News Avenue in Hampton Tuesday afternoon, according to the Hampton Division of Fire and Rescue.

WILLIAMSBURG, VA.- The nation’s founding story comes together stitch by stitch in “America’s Tapestry,” on view June 19-Sept. 6 at the Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary. The exhibition will commemorate America’s 250th anniversary with 13 hand-embroidered panels, one for each of the original colonies, telling unique stories drawn from each state’s Revolutionary-era history. Communally stitched by artisans from New Hampshire to Georgia...