The torrential rainstorms and nearby tornado in the last week are causing Prince William County leaders to worry they have an inadequate system to alert the public in the case of a deadly natural disaster.

Prince William County officials say they expect to spend more time and money than anticipated this year mowing the lawns of foreclosed homes.

Prince William County might open a selective magnet school that would be similar to Fairfax County's Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

Dumfries Police Detective John Chapman’s voice mail sounds like the cell phone recording of an 11-year-old boy, the better to trap the men he meets online.

Animal lovers in Prince William County, disgusted with how many animals are being killed at the animal shelter, want the county’s shelter programs overhauled.

Sinkhole triggers more evacuations in Camp Springs

It's a tough sell: nearly $1 billion a year in new taxes and fees for transportation while fuel prices are soaring past the means of many family budgets.

Lorrie Andrew-Spear is a master gardener with the Virginia Cooperative Extension and hosts “The Gardening Minute” on Prince William County public television, which films programs at the extension’s teaching garden in Bristow.

Prince William County fire department officials are hustling to fill the 48 spots county supervisors added to the ranks of firefighters and emergency technicians before training academy classes begin in July.

The metro-area real estate market saw a slight uptick in April as the spring season, typically real estate’s busiest time of the year, got