A total of 48 men and women received promotions on Tuesday afternoon at Hylton High School, officials said.

Starting in March, Spotsylvania County students who overcharge their meal accounts could end up eating cheese sandwiches and milk. The School Board is considering changes to its meal policy after students ran up a debt of more than $105,000....

The renovation project for Bowling Green Elementary School is back on the drawing board. The Caroline County School Board voted unanimously at a special meeting Monday to re-bid the project that would renovate and expand the 53-year-old pre-kindergarten through second-grade school into a pre-K through fifth-grade school....

GLENDALE--When it comes to using tourism, parks and American history to create jobs, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis sound remarkably in accord. That's what many people gathered Wednesday afternoon after taking part in a bipartisan "town hall" meeting at a small country chapel, Willis United Methodist Church, astride two Civil War battlefields just east of Richmond....

RICHMOND--The House of Delegates will vote Thursday on a bill to let schools decide whether they want to begin classes before Labor Day. But a Senate committee has already rejected an identical bill, which means the House version may face a hard time when it goes to the Senate....

Mary Washington Healthcare is again a provider in the Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield network. The two companies signed a new three-year agreement, effective Wednesday. The deal came exactly one month after Mary Washington walked away from the state's largest health insurance network....

RICHMOND--The Virginia Senate has voted down a bill that would have required candidates for local office who are nominated by a political party to be identified by party affiliation on the ballot. A House of Delegates committee killed similar legislation last week, which means the issue is likely over for this year....

BY CHELYEN DAVIS RICHMOND--Home-schooled students could try out for sports teams and other extracurricular activities at public schools under a bill approved Wednesday by the House of Delegates' Education Committee....

BY SCOTT SHENK Dale Zehner, the head of Virginia Railway Express since 2004, plans to officially retire in June, the commuter-rail company announced Wednesday....

BY PORTSIA SMITH Federal Disaster Recovery Centers in Louisa and Spotsylvania counties will close Feb. 11....