
Bees create buzz at the Science Museum of Virginia
Bees are creating quite the buzz at the newly installed Observational Honeybee Hive at the Science Museum of Virginia.

Bees are creating quite the buzz at the newly installed Observational Honeybee Hive at the Science Museum of Virginia.

The summer driving season started last weekend and motorists paid slightly more for gas at this time of year than in the previous two years ($3.66) – three cents more than in 2013 ($3.63) and two cents more than in 2012 ($3.64).

The State Corporation Commission (SCC) has scheduled a December public hearing on a request by Columbia Gas of Virginia to increase its rates.

Congressman Gutiérrez is here to set up a great deception that will allow Eric Cantor to claim he is opposed to amnesty, at the eleventh hour, just two weeks prior to the primary on June 10th.

The Virginia Sports Hall of Fame will be making a stop in Staunton for its annual Virginia Tour Golf Tournament. This year’s tournament will be held at the Club at Ironwood in Staunton, Virginia on Thursday, June 12.

The Shenandoah Valley Art Center, during the month of June, is exhibiting the works of SVAC member artists, in an exhibition judged by Jim Sconyers, Jr., Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History, Mary Baldwin College.

U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine announced the advancement of critical funding priorities for Virginia in the Fiscal Year 2015 Senate Appropriations bill for Military Construction, Veteran Affairs, and Related Agencies that was voted out of committee yesterday.

Motorists hitting the road this Memorial Day weekend will continue to see prices moving a little lower at the gas pump. The national average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline Friday is $3.66, up a penny in the last week.

Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced that the Commonwealth Transportation Board passed a resolution to increase transparency and competition and to better evaluate the public’s risk for projects delivered under the Public Private Transportation Act.

The American Farm Bureau Federation warns that a proposed expansion of the Clean Water Act by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could require farmers to follow federal regulations for those “waterways.”
AFP will break down local, Virginia and national races in the battle for the control of Congress Tuesday night.