Virginia Senate committee blocks bill to impose new hiring criteria for Richmond DPU directors
The bill was rejected on an 8-7 vote along party lines.
Graham Moomaw
Richmond officials want to test a new kind of bus stop. The Planning Commission is skeptical.
Richmond traffic officials are hoping to try out a new type of bus stop where riders would get on and off using a platform built in the street that would also slow down traffic.
Henry Marsh, Richmond’s first Black mayor, dies at 91
Marsh became mayor after residents elected the city’s first majority-Black City Council in 1977, putting him in a leadership role at a tense time when Richmond’s mostly white business class feared a loss of control over city government.
State health officials say Richmond water crisis was ‘completely avoidable’
Questions remain about delayed response to 2022 inspection
More than two weeks after a power outage set off a series of events that crippled Richmond’s water treatment plant, Virginia regulators are putting the city on notice that it may have violated state law and are launching their own investigation
Richmond selects national engineering firm to review water failure
The company is expecting to have “preliminary findings” within a few weeks and will follow up later with a full rundown on what the city can do to prevent future disruptions to water service.
Murder and violent crime fell in Richmond during 2024, police chief says
“I know it's not always obvious for folks and doesn't always feel that way, but this is the hard data,” Edwards said.
Richmond police chief reveals he got speeding ticket from one of his own officers
Near the end of a briefing Thursday on Richmond’s annual crime statistics, Police Chief Rick Edwards voluntarily revealed he had his own brush with the law the day before.
While heading to a meeting in his police vehicle on Wednesday, Edwards said, one of his own officers pulled him
