The Newport News City Council voted Tuesday night to align its local anti-discrimination ordinances with the state code, a change that many cities in Northern Virginia have already done.
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In the past, the city had stipulations that amounted to telling cab companies how to run their business — down to requiring taxi drivers to wear a collared shirt.
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Dispatchers were called about the shooting around 3:33 p.m. in the 2000 block of Seldendale Drive.
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The Virginia Living Museum released hundreds of butterflies and caterpillars Friday into the Butterfly Haven exhibit.
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Kalik Kydarial Newsome pleaded guilty to aggravated involuntary manslaughter and felony eluding police. He was sentenced last week to 25 years in prison with 14 years suspended.
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The next step in the city’s 2040 Community Plan is to break volunteers down into small groups to discuss key issues related to education, economic development, family resilience and economic empowerment.
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The new piglet and his mother are on display in the outdoor habitat in the mornings at the zoo.
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City officials had hoped the aquatics center, which features an eight-lane 50-meter competition pool, a 25-meter program pool and an outdoor “Splash-Down Park,” would open in August, but the latest update on the center’s Facebook page says it won’t be open until fall.
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The full-scale water treatment facility is expected to be operational in 2026 and will provide up to 16 million gallons of drinking-quality water per day.
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Newport News Waterworks, a city-owned regional supplier of drinking water, purchased 792 acres of land during the late 1990′s and early 2000′s to build a reservoir in King William County. The project was stopped in 2009, but the city has waited until now to sell, and is, in some cases, making less than half of what it paid for the land.
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