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

March 6 is the deadline to register for the annual STEM career conference scheduled for Saturday, March 21 from 8 a.m.–noon at Marsteller Middle School.

United Way of the National Capital Area (United Way NCA) awarded grants totaling $100,000 to 10 nonprofit member organizations in Prince William County in a ceremony on February 23 with Superintendent of Schools Steven L. Walts.

Students seeking to take on in-depth research, collaboration, and communication challenges to build college and career skills will get new opportunities this fall as Patriot and Woodbridge High Schools offer The College Board’s AP Capstone program.

PRTC will hold public hearings in Woodbridge and Manassas next week to present its proposed Fiscal Year 2016 budget and accept public comments about the plan that calls for curtailing some services, raising fares and applying for federal grants. The $68 million budget is austere because of financial limitations, according to Christine Rodreigo, PRTC spokesman.

PWCS is monitoring the situation and will announce as early as possible any potential changes to afternoon dismissal times and/or cancellation or postponement of afternoon and evening activities, if needed to ensure safety. Please check pwcs.edu, and PWCS text and email announcements frequently.​

On March 23 at 6:30 p.m., the Manassas Campus of Northern Virginia Community College will host “Chinese Culture and Growing Up in a Communist Country,” a presentation by Grace Yao and Dong Xiang. The event, which begins with light refreshments at 6 p.m., is free and open to the community.

The 25th annual food tasting that was to have been on March 3 at Patriot High School in Nokesville put on by Prince William County Schools to aid in cafeteria selections for the 2015-16 school year has been rescheduled to March 25.

Arrests of four people concluded a nearly three-month-long investigation into an incident involving the assault of a 15-year-old female of Manassas, VA by members of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) street gang during a gang initiation ritual on November 14, 2014.