PWC Police make arrest in connection with Jan. 9. 2025 shooting.

Prince William County firefighting units were dispatched to commercial and house fires in recent days.

U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is surveying 900+ cattle operations in Virginia to provide an up-to-date measure of cattle inventories, Survey results are due out on Jan. 31.

After all the holiday festivities are over and the finery has lost its luster, give your Christmas tree, wreath and other cut greenery another life as compost, mulch or habitat.

Want to be a lifeguard this summer? Get certified now. Manassas Park Community Center at 99 Adams Street will host the American Red Cross certification course Dec. 27-30.

Prior to the 2012 Virginia Construction Code being adopted, the Building Official was primarily required to enforce requirements related to swimming pool safety barriers and swimming pool electrical requirements. Prince William County must now also enforce circulation design, diving water envelopes, new barrier requirements and energy conservation requirements, according to the county's Building Official. The comment period, procedures and time line are described below. Comments due by Jan.11, 2017.

Facilities will close early Christmas Eve, all day Christmas and New Year’s Day.

"We urge everyone who puts up a cut Christmas tree to water it daily and then take it down right after the holidays," says Mike Curtis, NOVEC vice president, Public Relations. "The longer it stays up, the drier it becomes, and the more dangerous."

St. Katharine Drexel Mission, the Catholic Church in Haymarket, will hold two Christmas Eve Masses. There will be no Mass on Christmas Day. The Masses will be held at Bull Run Middle School, 6308 Catharpin Rd., Gainesville.