Virginia Energy options Hawk Ridge mining property for $3 million

7 February 2012, 7:24 am

VANCOUVER - Virginia Energy Resources Inc. (TSXV:VAE) has agreed to option its Hawk Ridge copper-nickel-platinum group metals property in Ungava Bay, Que. to Orient Venture Capital Inc. (TSXV:OVC.H) for $3 million in cash and stock.... Read More »

Virginia Energy to Monetize the Hawk Ridge Assets

7 February 2012, 5:35 am

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA-- - Virginia Energy Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that it has signed a Letter of Intent to option its Hawk Ridge copper-nickel-PGM property in Ungava Bay, Quebec to Orient Venture Capital Inc. for $3 million of cash and stock. The 14,976-hectare property is locate... Read More »

Virginia Senate votes to repeal limit on gun purchases

6 February 2012, 4:42 pm

PORTSMOUTH, Va (Reuters) - Virginia lawmakers on Monday moved toward lifting a 19-year-old law limiting handgun purchases to one per month, despite a recent history of campus shootings and critics' concerns that the state will become a "gunrunners' paradise." State senators voted 21-19 to am... Read More »

Virginia lawmakers vote to lift handgun purchase limit

6 February 2012, 3:41 pm

The Virginia Senate voted Monday to lift the state’s one-per-month limit on handgun purchases, eliminating a 19-year-old cap that critics called outdated but gun-control activists credited with tamping down weapons trafficking. Read full article >>... Read More »

Virginia Repeals Restricted Gun Buying Law

6 February 2012, 1:44 pm

Twenty years ago, Virginia had a not-so-flattering reputation as a haven for illegal gun runners. Traffickers would buy batches of guns legally in the state, and sell them on the black market. With the Virginia guns turning up at crime scenes up and down the Eastern seaboard, the state legislature d... Read More »

Virginia American Water Files Rate Request With Virginia State Corporation Commission

6 February 2012, 1:07 pm

Virginia American Water Company today filed a general rate case application with the State Corporation Commission requesting an increase in total revenues of approximately $5.7 million.... Read More »

Virginia Senate votes to repeal one-gun-a-month

6 February 2012, 11:11 am

The Virginia Senate voted 21-19 today to repeal the one-gun-a-month restriction on handgun purchases that has been in place since 1993. ... Read More »

Virginia Legislators Tebow Toward Home-Schooled Kids

6 February 2012, 7:29 am

Virginia is moving toward forcing public schools to let home schoolers on their sports teams. You may know that legislative move as a Tim Tebow bill, because Tebow was a home-schooler who got to play football at his local high school thanks to a law Florida passed in 1996, pre-Tebow-as-athletic-hero... Read More »

West Virginia American Water Now Accepting Applications for 2012 Environmental Grant Program

6 February 2012, 6:38 am

West Virginia American Water announced today that applications are now being accepted by for the company’s 2012 Environmental Grant Program awards. The Environmental Grant Program... Read More »

Virginia lawmakers pass abortion, adoption bills

3 February 2012, 2:40 pm

PORTSMOUTH, Va (Reuters) - Virginia would halt taxpayer-funded abortions for low-income women in cases where the fetus is severely physically deformed or mentally deficient under Republican-backed legislation passed Friday by state lawmakers. The House of Delegates voted 64-35 to strip the Board of ... Read More »