Friends of the Occoquan, the nonprofit group that spearheads the cleanup effort, has scheduled the event at four Northern Virginia locations from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.

A Washington-based non-profit reported Wednesday that states in the Southeast rank among the country’s worst on key indicators for children’s well-being.

James Walbert feels that maintaining the small town atmosphere is important to the quality of life for Occoquan residents.

You can expect some delay around these constructioin spots.

After hearing nearly two dozen mediators, volunteers, judges and parents speak about the benefits of the office of dispute resolution Tuesday, the Board of County Supervisors agreed to spare it from proposed budget cuts, for now.

The Immigration & Customs Enforcement 287(g) program at the Prince William-Manassas Regional Adult Detention Center is not going as planned, jail officials said.

The Manassas Park fiscal 2009 budget presented by city manager Mercury Payton on Tuesday is not an extravagant one.

Mitchel P. Raftelis has served his hometown of Quantico for 50 years working as its town treasurer and clerk, and then as a councilman and mayor.

There is no shortage of questions when it comes to the Immigration & Customs Enforcement 287(g) program and the city of Manassas’ involvement in it.

Prince William County police are still investigating the motive in the stabbing of a 17-year-old during one of several fights that broke out in the parking lot at Gar-Field Senior High School following a charity event Friday night.

A former probation officer waived her right to a preliminary hearing on charges of embezzlement and forgery in Prince William General District Court on Tuesday.

At the Prince William Area Free Clinic’s “Crystal Gala” in January, Virginia Cardiovascular Associates “bought” (in live auction) the right to cut Dr. John Cary’s curly locks of hair.

Prince William police arrested four teenage boys in connection with the attack on a 15-year-old boy in the parking lot of Potomac Mills mall in Woodbridge on Monday evening.

As the search for the missing 42-year-old Manassas man, whose abandoned car was found at Shenandoah National Park, moves into its fifth day, teams are now returning to areas already searched to conduct more detailed examinations, authorities said Tuesday.

The Manassas Lifelong Learning Institute will host Virginia’s poet laureate, Dr. Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda on April 9.

Effective immediately through late June, some Prince William County Service Authority customers who live in the Occoquan-Woodbridge-Dumfries-Triangle area and in some sections of the greater Manassas may notice a slight chlorine taste and smell in their water, county officials said Tuesday.

Nokesville, Gainesville, Haymarket and Dale City drivers, expect daytime delays for utility and road work on the following roads…

The One Day Metrorail Mass Pass, good for unlimited travel on April 17, the day of Pope Benedict XVI’s mass at Nationals Park, is available on Metro’s Web site and at Metro sales offices at Metro Center, the Pentagon Transit Center and Metro headquarters.

A left turn gone wrong caused a five-car accident that delayed thousands of commuters and school children in Woodbridge early Thursday morning.
Witnesses said it was the worst backup they’d seen in Lake Ridge on a road that carries scores of commuters headed toward Interstate 95 each morning.

Area water system may smell and taset of chlorine during annual flushing proceedure.

Federal immigration officials want to give local law enforcement agencies more tools to identify illegal immigrant inmates incarcerated in local jails and prisons.

A convoy protesting high diesel prices pulled out of a truck stop south of Atlanta about 30 strong, and got a lot stronger.

Authorities are searching for a missing Manassas man whose vehicle was found at Shenandoah National Park two days after his family reported him missing.

Prince William General District Court Judge Craig D. Johnston issued an arrest warrant Monday for Virgil Loren Snyder, a homeless man who burned down another homeless man’s camp in July.

After watching the Dumfries Town Council handled a grant proposal from the town’s historic group last year, Nancy H. West decided it was time to get involved.

Tornados which appear suddenly and without warning are nature’s violent storms.

Habitat for Humanity is packing its bricks and mortar and heading away from the land it owns on Websters Way because of strong opposition from its affluent neighbors.

This column will no longer appear in the newspaper. Just kidding, it’s April Fools’ Day!

After 24 years at the Northern Virginia Automated Regional Identification System, NOVARIS, facility in Fairfax County, the Prince William County Police Department’s four-member fingerprint unit has come home.

Calling for Prince William police Chief Charlie T. Deane to resign because he agreed to meet with the Mexican consul and discuss immigration issues is a bit over the top, said one supervisor.