Samuel B. Parker

In 2021, city officials signed a contract under which Top Guard provides security personnel at City Hall, multiple public libraries and Main Street Station for about $2.2 million per year.

For the second time in as many years, the body rejected a four-cent reduction to the rate amid surging real estate assessments.

Officials have done nothing to collect the funds since roughly five years ago — when “previous leadership” decided to “suspend collections efforts” due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a spokesperson said.

Saturday was punctuated by unforecasted thunderstorms and cloudbursts that forced festival organizers to evacuate the Midtown Green on West Leigh Street twice in the late afternoon and early evening.

Judge Cardwell's order comes amid rising tensions between both parties of discovery documents and witnesses.

Hanover prosecutors charged Jillian and Christopher Barry with six counts of animal cruelty after authorities found neglected and emaciated animals. The couple denies wrongdoing; trial is scheduled October 16.

Last year, an audit found that RPS facilities will need over $1.5 billion in repairs and upgrades by 2095. The immediate need for 2024 and 2025 was a collective $43,719,000.

Asked on July 3 how much officials had spent on HR investigations by private firms since January 2023, the spokesperson said officials were “pulling that number together.”

FBI data from local police departments show that only seven percent of human trafficking offenses led to arrests from 2021 to 2023 — 1,344 arrests for 19,225 reported offenses.

The Virginia Department of Corrections is instituting a hiring freeze and working to cut “unnecessary spending” due to the surging costs of inmate health care, according to an internal memo.

The disclosure is a reversal from the administration’s decision to invoke the working papers exemption to Virginia’s FOIA. The exemption initially was cited by officials to justify withholding the documents.

City officials on Thursday night announced a $500,000 relief fund for small businesses impacted by January's water crisis.

Those upgrades include the installation of new backup batteries, Avula said.

Richmond’s water treatment plant in August 2023 experienced a “chemical incident” that caused officials to question whether staff members were properly trained and adequately prepared to handle emergencies.

The part is at least two decades old, plant staff said on Friday.

Five donors listed in Floyd's campaign finance filings say they never gave money to his City Council campaign. Those donors include a Maryland assistant attorney general and a Chicago businessman.

One proposal, brought by Councilwoman Reva Trammell, calls for reducing the real estate tax rate by 4 cents. The other proposal, brought by Kristen Nye, suggests maintaining the current rate.

Richmond's inspector general says he was given legal advice by city attorneys to drop his probe into tax collection issues. But the city attorney’s office says it issued no such

Curtis T. Thomas, 32, has been charged in Chesterfield County with four counts of receiving money from the earnings of a prostitute and four counts of commercial sex trafficking.

Officials said the building shut down at 2:30 p.m. — just as the temperature hit 97 degrees. Richmond was among multiple Virginia localities under a heat advisory.