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Newport News is adjusting the city’s proposed budget to give public safety workers a 5% pay raise in the next fiscal year and implement a step plan that officials say will make the city more competitive with surrounding localities and help retain employees. Budget Director Lisa Cipriano said if implemented, the plan would make Newport News “a leader on the Peninsula” when it comes to ...

Newport News is adjusting the city's proposed budget to give public safety workers a 5% pay raise in the next fiscal year and implement a step plan that officials say will make the city more competitive with surrounding localities and help retain employees.

What's Next, a program that offers free trade classes for people in Hampton Roads, is holding an open house on Monday.

Traveling for official city business is often part of a city council member’s job, allowing an elected official to gain insight on how peers in other cities and countries are handling a variety of issues. But with travel come expenses that are often paid for by taxpayers. The expenses cities cover on council members’ behalf make up only a small fraction of overall budgets, but without ...

To learn more about how city council members are spending taxpayer dollars, The Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press filed Freedom of Information Act requests asking for all expenses that six Hampton Roads cities paid for city council members in 2023. Total expenses range from about $41,000 in Newport News to $12,400 in Norfolk.

NBA hall of famer Allen Iverson will have a street named in his honor by the City of Newport News.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s ongoing fight for justice is what drives many people to give back .

The Newport News City Council plans to create a formal handbook to guide council conduct and policies after concerns were raised about council members’ misuse of city-issued credit cards. During Tuesday’s council work session, Mayor Phillip Jones suggested creating the handbook to guide council behavior and to codify roles and responsibilities. “We had a few calls and emails about credit cards ...

During Tuesday's council work session, Mayor Phillip Jones suggested creating a formal policy handbook to guide council behavior and to codify roles and responsibilities. A draft is hoped to be before the council later this year, presumably around late summer and early fall.

The What's Next Program is offering free trade classes, setting hundreds of people up for the future.