Beginning Sunday night, April 28, weather permitting, a portion of the northbound and southbound I-95 general purpose lanes in Prince William County will have nighttime single- and double-lane closures until late fall.

Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative (NOVEC) with March 16 deadline and the Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives (VMDAEC) with Feb. 11 deadline are accepting applications for higher-education scholarships from high school and home-schooled seniors who receive electricity from electric cooperatives. Scholarship committees will look for students who have demonstrated scholastic achievement, community service, work experience and leadership skills.

Solving the overpopulation of deer problem in Prince William County came a step closer to realization Jan. 13 when the county’s board of supervisors made it easier for homeowner associations to eliminate deer with bow and arrow.

The effort to kill the $12.1-million appropriation needed to bury power lines along US 1 in Woodbridge came to a halt Jan. 13 when Prince William Board of County Supervisors voted it down at a public hearing in McCoart Government Center.

Manassas VA City Police Department's crime report for Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015.

Dominion Virginia Power filed an application with the Virginia State Corporation Commission Jan. 20, to build a 20-megawatt solar project on approximately 125 acres of land owned by the company near the Remington Power Station in Fauquier County. Facility would be capable of generating enough electricity at peak capacity to power 5,000 homes and be operational in 2016.

The Stone Haven and Birkwood Public Hearings scheduled for the evening session of the Board of County Supervisors' meeting for Tuesday, January 20, have been deferred, according to a memo from Gainesville Supervisor Pete Candland. As a result, tonight’s evening session has been cancelled.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Prince William, announces a free education class for families who have relatives with serious mental illness on Thursdays, Feb. 26 - May 28 at Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center, Woodbridge.

Prince William County government's Historic Preservation Division is beginning a series of free "lectures" on World War II and the Vietnam War. The talks will be on the last Thursday evening of the next five months starting Thursday, Jan. 29.