Every April, companies large and small send applications to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) hoping to secure highly-coveted H-1B visas in 2018. As has been the case in recent years, the USCIS was inundated with hundreds of thousands of applications and within hours, the ap...

There is much to love about Fredericksburg — and its history is certainly an attraction. A recent study by the LendEDU organization ranked Fredericksburg seventh in the U.S. as the “Best Places to Learn History.” The organization used historical data points and locations and matched it against popul...

  Like nearly everyone these days, it seems that I spend the majority of each work day sitting behind a computer.  All day Mondays and Tuesdays, Wednesday afternoons, as well as Thursdays and Fridays, the staff here at the newspaper office spends most of the day typing articles, composing advertisem...

There is a difference between conservative and miserly. Our state legislature, conservative by nature and by its representation, is conservative. But ...

Monday morning I received news that my good friend and Fredericksburg High School classmate of 2010, Aaron Chavarria, passed away in a car accident. H...

If it wasn’t for access to public records, none of us would know how widespread concussions are among our young student athletes and how we might bett...