James City County

HOMICIDES IN HAMPTON ROADS in 2013     CHESAPEAKE 1.       Jan. 20—Rachel Abshire (26, Chesapeake) was found stabbed to death in her Kingsbridge apartment located off of Johnstown Road. Cory Abshire (27, Norfolk), Rachel’s estranged...

Dominion Virginia Power says it paid nearly $142 million in taxes to Virginia cities, counties and towns. The company paid more than $40 million in taxes to localities in Hampton Roads. That’s an increase of about $10 million or 7.6 percent from...

Learn and Grow Series with Art in the Garden Linda Miller, Artist and Virginia Master Naturalist, will help children 7 and older create a botanical portrait in colored pencil or watercolor from plant materials they select in the Williamsburg Botanical...

In the history of the American people, many places are precious. But none reaches back so far -- or did so much to shape the nation's identity -- as the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown. Twelve years after the first colonists landed in 1607...

The Virginia Living Museum has announced the winners of the first Birding Cup Challenge, according to a news release. The team Eagle Eyes was the Birding Cup Champion counting 97 species during the 24-hour competition April 12-13. Team members were:...

Virginia State Police have released the names of a Nebraska couple killed in a plane crash near Williamsburg. Spokeswoman Corinne Geller says 54-year-old pilot Joseph D. Brown IV and his wife, 52-year-old Susan D. Brown, died when a single-engine Cessna...

Mental health professionals are increasingly pointing to early intervention and increased services for children as one of the keys to successful treatment for mental illnesses. Colonial Behavioral Health, the community services board responsible for...

Local poetry groups offer support April is National Poetry Month. According to the website of the Academy of American Poets, this now-annual event began in 1996 to “celebrate poetry and its vital place in American culture.” Since starting...

Gloucester County is one of 19 local cities, counties and school districts in Virginia and 247 across the nation to receive an award for its transparent government website. The "Sunny Award" is from Sunshine Review, a national nonprofit organization...

March 15 is the deadline to enter the For the Birds Birdhouse Competition and Exhibit at the Virginia Living Museum, according to a museum news release. “Hampton Roads has a wealth of native birds that use birdhouses to nest. We’re...

Feb. 16 is your chance to take a nice nature walk in upper York County and  James City County. Both nature walks encompass information about bluebirds, which are beginning to look for nesting places, so you can learn how to attract bluebirds to your own...

  Three food and wine benefits take place in the coming weeks. Sister Cities benefit Sister Cities Yorktown is hosting a winter wine dinner to benefit its activities with its sister city, Port-Vendres in France. The event will take place at 7 p.m....