Updated: 5:29 PM AAA is estimating that gas prices in Va. will drop 6-cents per gallon as the retail gas tax is replaced with a lower tax at the wholesale level.

Updated: 6:18 PM Dominion Virginia Power is launching a program for people who want to install solar panels on their property.

Posted: 11:58 AM Virginia attorney general presses Treasury to release state's $115M share of settlement.

Updated: 6:26 PM The Virginia Department of Forestry is awarding grants to over a hundred volunteer fire departments in the Commonwealth.

Updated: 6:26 PM The US Forest Service is considering allowing fracking in the George Washington National Forest.

Posted: 4:59 PM Six state police and highway patrol agencies spent Memorial Day Weekend heavily patrolling Route 15 in an effort to keep drivers safe.

Updated: 5:21 PM Health alert for anyone who was at Dulles International Airport on June 7: You may have been exposed to the measles.

Updated: 7:03 PM In 2012, The Wildlife Center of Virginia fostered 17 bears total for the year. This Spring alone, they have 17 bears, breaking a record for the number of bears at the center at once.

Updated: 5:39 PM Police have identified the victim in a fatal train accident as Jessica Collins Lowe of Lyndhurst.

Updated: 6:29 PM Appeals court agrees to expand appeal of ex-UVa lacrosse player convicted in ex's slaying

Updated: 9:36 PM A solar-powered plane nearing the close of a cross-continental journey landed at Dulles International Airport outside the nation's capital early Sunday, only one short leg to New York remaining on a voyage that opened in May.

Posted: 4:07 PM A health fair at Virginia State University provided free dental care to more than 500 people.

Posted: 4:06 PM Police say a Lyndhurst woman was trying to get off the tracks when she was hit by a train on a trestle.

Posted: 4:03 PM Police are investigating a body found in a pool near where a Henrico County boy went missing. Media outlets report that the body hasn't been identified.

Updated: 7:57 PM NASA's Wallops Flight Facility is hosting more than 120 students and educators for Rocket Week on Virginia's Eastern Shore.

Updated: 3:56 PM The Richmond area will come together at a park where a 4-year-old was killed by a tree during this week's storm to remember the boy.

Posted: 3:55 PM The growing threat that rising sea levels pose to the Virginia coast has been well known for years, but one of the authors of a report on recurrent flooding says the state still isn't making any concerted efforts to adapt to the effects of climate change.

Updated: 10:57 AM Boy killed by falling tree in Richmond, storm knocks out power to more than 170k in Virginia

Posted: 2:05 PM Gov. Bob McDonnell announced Thursday that May revenue collections increased by 20.5 percent from May of last year.

Posted: 11:26 AM Checks are going out this week to more than 22,000 Virginians participating in the National Mortgage Foreclosure Settlement.

Updated: 5:17 PM A sentencing hearing is set for a Gloucester County couple convicted of keeping their daughter in a makeshift cage.

Posted: 1:46 PM A store in Pittsylvania County has been shut down for selling sex toys, bondage gear and pornographic DVDs.

Posted: 1:43 PM The Virginia War Memorial has set an attendance record for the month of May.

Posted: 1:42 PM A state senator representing southwest Virginia is asking the inspector general to investigate the state attorney general's office's role in a dispute over natural gas royalties between two energy companies and the owners of property where the gas was drilled.

Posted: 11:13 AM Students will pay more to attend James Madison University during the 2013-2014 school year than they did during the previous year with tuition rising by about 4 percent.