Tom Lappas

Open Audio Article Player Track has hosted 2 NASCAR Cup Series events annually since 1959, except during COVID-shortened 2020 season

The news that local officials had feared for years could come finally arrived Tuesday, when NASCAR officials confirmed they were yanking away Richmond Raceway’s spring race weekend in 2025 and moving it to Mexico City. The move to shift the top-level Cup Series race (which has carried the Toyota Owners 400 name since 2013) and a corresponding second-tier Xfinify Series […]

New revenue from data centers in Henrico will provide a big boost to Henrico’s bottom line in the next decade or so, and its impact could help fund some “really exceptional” initiatives by the county’s board of supervisors, according to Henrico County Manager John Vithoulkas. During the first portion of a two-day board of supervisors retreat Wednesday morning at the […]

The application process for Henrico County’s new $60-million Affordable Housing Trust Fund, through which county officials and their partners aim to foster the construction of about 100 to 150 affordable single-family homes in the county during each of the next five years, opened this week. Relatedly, the county also is planning to create a new zoning classification (R-4B Single-Family Residential […]

Henrico County’s Administration building at the Western Henrico government center. (Photo by Analise Beres for the Henrico Citizen)

The site of the new Henrico Global Business Gateway Program at the Gather West End location in Innsbrook. (Courtesy Henrico EDA)

Henrico County received some unexpected international attention Sunday night as the result of a post on X by the social media platform’s owner, Elon Musk, who has more than 200 million followers.

County takes operational control of 14.8-billion gallon reservoir in Cumberland County, names it for former county manager Hazelett

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Henrico County’s unemployment rate dropped slightly in October – from 3.1% in September to 2.8%, just slightly below the statewide average of 2.8% – according to new data from the Virginia Employment Commission.