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Richmond Public Schools continued to pay Bobby Hathaway, the former director of facilities for the division, for six weeks after two investigations into alleged improprieties both recommended his termination.

At issue is a resignation that Hathaway submitted on April 23, but which was later rejected. The additional pay came to light in documents newly released to The Ri...


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With local governments facing steeper electricity costs this year, Richmond officials are considering a proposal to install solar panels on an array of city-owned buildings in hopes of both bringing down expenses and furthering city climate goals. 

“We can get cheaper electricity from our own rooftops rather than [what] we would be paying Dominion,” Dawn Oleksy, Ri...


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Richmond Mayor Danny Avula led a bus tour of the city’s public-private partnerships on Wednesday night, part of an event the city is hosting for mayors from around the country.

City leaders showcased landmarks like CoStar’s 26-story office tower, Allianz Amphitheater and CarMax Park, putting a focus on projects done collaboratively with the private sector that they said...


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Weather: Scattered afternoon showers continue, high of 91.

On this date in 1961, City Council votes to require guides at Civil War sites in Richmond be licensed by the city.

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The Virginia General Assembly’s last-minute budget deal has created an urgent math problem for Richmond Public Schools. And city officials don’t appear to have an immediate plan for how to solve it.

Because RPS relied on an erroneously rosy prediction for how much funding the division would receive from the state, the school system has a roughly $8.9 million hole in its...


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