Portsmouth News

It's story time in Laura Rieg's preschool classroom at Olive Branch Preschool in Portsmouth on Friday, May 10, 2013.

More than 90 firefighters from around the world are meeting this week in Portsmouth to learn how best to fight fires aboard ships.

The City Council unanimously passed its $389 million operating budget Tuesday evening, cutting school funding but leaving the city's tax rate unchanged.

Portsmouth, Va .- Actor Gary Sinise and his Lt. Dan Band hit the stage in Portsmouth over the weekend.

The Virginia Port Authority announced that the port complex topped its own East Coast record on Saturday when a fully loaded Mediterranean Shipping Co.

Williamsburg's Bruce Hornsby hasn't been a stranger to local audiences recently.

A 60-year-old Portsmouth man is now facing murder charges in the shooting death of a family member, police tell NewsChannel 3. On May 12, 2013 at approximately 11:20 p.m., Portsmouth police received 911 calls related to gunshots in the area of the 3700 block of Magnolia Drive.

Anna Piemontese Bonomo, center, shares a laugh with Cindy Lee, center right, during the 30th annual reunion of Naples High School students at Ray and Cindy Lee's home in Suffolk on May 11, 2013.

Pilot reporter Dave Forster parked his car for a week and made the Portsmouth-to-Norfolk commute using his bike.

A new ranking of Virginia's business tax burden as one of the lowest in the nation arrives as taxes have become a key issue in the governor's race.

A top defense official says workers at the Navy's four public shipyards could be given a special exemption from budget-related furloughs.

Griffin served on the council from 1992 through 2004. He was appointed mayor after the recall of former Mayor James Holley and served from July through October 2010.

The eyes of the nation have already turned to Virginia's gubernatorial race, one of only two such contests in the country and the only competitive one.

A Circuit Court Judge in Virginia ruled that the state General Assembly exceeded its power when it allowed the highway department to impose tolls at two existing tunnels to help pay for a new tunnel connecting Norfolk and Portsmouth, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal .

The second weekend in May brings hundreds of pan students to the Virginia coast for beaches, fun, sun, and great pan.

A memorial for fallen officers was held Tuesday at St. Mark Missionary Church in Portsmouth.

The coal ship Antonis G. Pappadakis, docked at Portsmouth Marine Terminal in Portsmouth on April 30.

Devin Copeland of Chesapeake and Mareio Overton of Portsmouth claim the song "Somebody to Love" contains numerous lyrical and stylistic similarities to the song they wrote in 2008 by the same name.

Bikers rode to raise money for breast cancer in the "Rev it up for Relay for Life." The Norfolk Sheriff's office puts on the event each year, raising thousands of dollars for Relay for Life.

Virginia Beach resident Aaron Euart shops for kitchen items on Friday, April 26, 2013 at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Virginia Beach, Va.