
House Republicans highlight 2015 legislative agenda
Members of the House Republican Caucus outlined their 2015 agenda Monday at a press conference at the General Assembly Building in Richmond.

Members of the House Republican Caucus outlined their 2015 agenda Monday at a press conference at the General Assembly Building in Richmond.

It’s official! AAA, the trusted source for nationwide gas prices, announced the Virginia gas price average fell below $2 per gallon to $1.99 per gallon statewide, the lowest price of gasoline in the Commonwealth since May 2009.

For the past three years, Virginia Tech civil and environmental engineering students and faculty advisers Mark Widdowson and John Novak, have spent considerable time in the Caribbean but the journeys were not of the recreational variety.

U.S. motorists are paying an average price at the gas pump Friday ($2.08 per gallon) that is nearly 44 percent lower than the 2014 peak of $3.70 reached on April 28.

UVA Health System and Bon Secours Health System signed a non-exclusive agreement this week that will lead to new patient care partnerships.

Governor McAuliffe and the Virginia Council on Women announced the fourth annual STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Essay Contest for high school junior and senior girls.

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

AAA Mid-Atlantic has announced the 22 hotels and 12 restaurants in Virginia that earned the Four or Five Diamond Rating during the past 12 months.

The 2015 Virginia General Assembly is under way in Richmond. With legislative elections looming in November, will lawmakers achieve anything of substance, or will the session be about political posturing with control of the General Assembly the prize?

Next Monday, Jan. 19 the Virginia Department of Transportation and contractor Fairfield-Echols LLC of Fishersville will begin work to replace the Route 616 (Black Cat Road) bridge over Buckingham Branch Railroad in Albemarle County.
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