
Discard pesticides, containers safely through disposal programs
The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is offering its 2016 Pesticide Disposal Program at no cost to participants in designated localities.

The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is offering its 2016 Pesticide Disposal Program at no cost to participants in designated localities.

Two Virginia State Police Appomattox Division Area Offices are beginning the New Year with new leadership.

The following highway work is scheduled, weather permitting, in the Culpeper District during the upcoming week.

Oil prices continue a 14-month dip, revolutionizing prices at the gas pump. Today’s national average price is $1.90, down 7 cents from last week.

Central Virginia is in line to get up to a foot of snow Thursday night into Saturday, potentially impacting #13 UVA’s noon Saturday tip with Syracuse.

The Virginia women’s basketball team (12-6, 2-2 ACC) plays at Georgia Tech (11-7, 1-4 ACC) on Sunday, Jan. 17 at 2 p.m. in Atlanta, Ga.

The 2016 regular session of the Virginia General Assembly is off and running. The long sessions are held in even years and are significant because we will be adopting a new two-year budget.

No. 13 Virginia (13-3, 2-2 ACC) plays at Florida State (11-5, 1-3 ACC) in Atlantic Coast Conference action on Sunday, Jan. 17.

#13 Virginia needed this one. Bad. And it got the win over #8 Miami Tuesday night, and it doesn’t matter that it looked bad.

The policies put forth in Washington have real, and sometimes painful, effects on Fifth District Virginians, and the implementation of the President’s healthcare law is a prime example.
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