Stafford County may have to shell out $15 million more for employee benefits. And recent real estate reassessments don't show a windfall in property tax revenue. ...

For the first time since the earthquake that rattled the region last Aug. 23, middle and high school students in Louisa County will return to a normal five-day schedule Wednesday. The 1,500 students at Louisa High School will attend classes in a new modular facility that the school system is renting until repairs are made at the original high school, which had structural damage as a result of the magnitude-5.8 quake....

BY PORTSIA SMITH Area residents who lost their jobs as a direct result of the Aug. 23 earthquake have until Thursday to file for disaster unemployment assistance....

By RUSTY DENNEN A noticeable aftershock triggered an "unusual event" declaration Monday night at North Anna Power Station....

ALMOST 20 years ago, on Feb. 7, 1992, the Maastricht Treaty was signed, creating the European Union and its symbol, the euro. It took another 10 years for the euro to come into play as the currency for the better part of a continent (17 of the 27 EU countries now use it). Suddenly, American tourists didn't have to be math majors. It wasn't necessary to figure that 50,000 liri equaled about 30 bucks, or that a 200-franc meal wasn't going to bust your budget. The euro was more or less even with the dollar. Put away the calculator....

King George County supervisors agreed to make up the shortfall in this year's school budget so that teachers, bus drivers and instructional aides can get a 2 percent pay raise, retroactive to Jan. 1. "We do have your back," Supervisors Chairman Cedell Brooks Jr. told the dozen people in the audience Tuesday. Most of them were school employees....

RICHMOND--State park campgrounds would have to raise their fees and limit their offerings under a bill in the General Assembly. The bill requires state parks to avoid competing with private-sector campgrounds, by setting their camping fees at or above the mean fee charged by local private campgrounds. It also would bar state parks from expanding new camp areas unless they could show nearby private campgrounds weren't providing enough camping areas....

It might be unseasonably warm outside, but inside Pearl Sample Elementary School snowmen are thriving.

The 51-year-old Culpeper woman charged with two counts of embezzlement for reportedly stealing several thousands of dollars from the Culpeper Pharmacy in the Southgate Shopping Center where she worked pleaded guilty in Culpeper County Circuit Court on Jan. 24.

County still added 455 people since 2010 census