Government

The state-led study into the health system’s governance structure comes as a request to examine its $73 million project exit payment has been forwarded to the U.S. Department of Justice.

A neighborhood association told a city committee it would take legal action if council approves the proposal this Monday.

The former senior manager pled guilty in July to defrauding the city of over $600,000 in contracts. His wife also was sentenced Tuesday, while a second co-conspirator is to be sentenced next week.

The expansion created eight travel lanes along Route 10 between Bermuda Triangle Road and Rivers Bend Boulevard and six lanes on a stretch of Meadowville Road.

The funding from Local Initiatives Support Corp. would be used to establish a new small building loan program and a developer training program that the nonprofit has introduced in other cities.

The articulated buses, so named for the accordion-like joint in the middle of the bus that helps the long vehicles make turns, are expected to cost $1.1 million each.

The Ridgedale Special Focus Area plan will guide future zoning requests and land-use policies for the roughly 580-acre area just inside Chesterfield’s border with the city.

In a bid to build on the momentum of sports-tourism activity happening at River City Sportsplex, Chesterfield officials have turned their attention to improvements at another recreation facility.

Scrutiny over the failed downtown development that cost VCU Health $73 million to back out of is prompting a closer look by the Virginia General Assembly’s investigative arm.

In the final installment of a series of discussions with Chesterfield Board of Supervisors candidates, those running in the Bermuda and Dale districts sound off on rural development, meals taxes and the county zoning ordinance.