The company filed the case in November 2025 and was originally requesting a nearly 30% increase that would have raised the average water bill by about $11.
The commission based its analysis on patients’ socioeconomic demographics and insurance types as well as hospitals’ financial information to determine risk levels for closure.
Valley Link says the new routes are not set in stone, and they’re holding another round of open houses in each of the nine counties to continue collecting feedback.
The draft permit would give AWS permission to release 280,000 gallons a day of treated cooling water from its data centers into Sedges Creek, which flows into Lake Anna.
Ongoing drought conditions are forcing firefighters in rural Virginia to travel farther for water as rivers and ponds dry up, complicating emergency response operations across the state.
A Midlothian restaurant is raising money to support two Chesterfield County police officers who were shot and seriously injured responding to a domestic call last month.
Avenues Recovery is opening a 120-bed residential addiction treatment center in Chesterfield in July to provide medically supervised detox and structured care for individuals with co-occurring substance use and mental health challenges.
