Albemarle County News

Albemarle County police held a checkpoint Wednesday night on Commonwealth Avenue in Albemarle County.

Emergency responders from Charlottesville, Albemarle County, and the University of Virginia are working to launch a new mapping technology to report emergencies in real time.

A repair project at the Albemarle County Office Building on McIntire Road led to a discovery of a one inch bow in the exterior wall.

The principals of River Bend Management announced Tuesday that they signed a lease agreement with Wegmans Food Markets for their shopping center development located at Interstate 64 & 5th Street.

A State Farm employee in Albemarle County is saying farewell after 59 years and 8 months on the job.

A van ran into a YMCA Child Care Center on Westfield Road in Albemarle County. The Child Care Center will be closed Wednesday.

Albemarle County is making progress in preserving land to keep the rural quality a part of the county.

Beginning Wednesday, the Virginia Department of Transportation will place a temporary restriction on truck traffic on Route 731 and Route 744 in Albemarle County.

A Keswick man has pleaded guilty to eluding police following a high speed chase.

Two Charlottesville fitness clubs' suit against the city and county over plans for a new YMCA facility heads to the Virginia Supreme Court this week.

You can have the most walkable neighborhood in the world, but if the only places you can walk to are your neighbors', the neighborhood is not truly walkable; this seems to be something lost on Albemarle County, whether intentionally or circumstantially.

On a hot Sunday afternoon, hundreds of people swarmed to get a glimpse of a green cube as it was lifted out of the ground behind the Charlottesville Circuit Court House.

According to town police spokesman Wally Bunker, 25-year-old Terell Poteat was arrested just outside Charlottesville about 6:30 Sunday night, while 18-year-old Christina Jenkins turned herself in to Culpeper police Monday evening.

At 5:39 p.m. Monday, Virginia State Police Senior Trooper D.L. Keaton was called to the scene of a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 64 at the 102 mile marker in Albemarle County.

Just in time for the busy holiday travel weekend the Virginia Department of Transportation has unveiled a pair of tools to keep drivers moving.

Memorial Day is being marked in some of our smallest towns - in Earlysville, a big program kicked off at 10:00 a.m. Monday with some star-spangled moments.

The Virginia Supreme Court has scheduled a June 7 hearing date for a pair of lawsuits seeking to block the Piedmont Family YMCA's aquatics center from being built on the west side of Charlottesville's McIntire Park .

Central Virginia's backyard beaches are a popular holiday weekend destination to soak up some sun, dig your feet in the sand, or take a swim.

In Greene County Saturday, 23 Albemarle County men who sacrificed their lives during the Vietnam War are being honored at a new brick memorial in Ruckersville.

For more than 30 years, the Albemarle Housing Improvement Program has been providing free home repairs to low-income families.