Sarah Vogelsong

Sarah is a government and energy reporter who has worked in Richmond journalism since 2012, most recently as editor of the Virginia Mercury. She is a William & Mary grad and lives in Highland Park.

Mosby Street bus platform experiment showing few changes in driver behavior so far

City staff found that roughly one out of every three times the bus stopped, a car passed it — about the same percentage seen before platform installation.

City Hall, downtown courts building, Main Library top list of city-owned facilities with maintenance backlogs

Together, those three facilities are responsible for $115.4 million of an overall $295 million the city estimates it’s facing in deferred maintenance on its buildings.

Richmond and surrounding counties included on federal list of ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions

The city of Richmond, as well as Henrico, Chesterfield and — curiously — Hanover counties are included on a list of local jurisdictions refusing to enforce immigration laws.

Harrison Ruffin Tyler, grandson of 10th U.S. president and longtime Richmonder, dies at 96

The Richmond resident, preservationist and chemical engineer, for whom William & Mary’s history department is named, also had the distinction of being the grandson of a man who became U.S. president in 1841.

3 p.m. water update: Production resumes; poor 'raw water quality' contributed to outage

The water plant is now producing water at about 40-45 million gallons per day, slightly below normal full operating capacity of about 50 million gallons per day.

Citywide cultural heritage plan stalls at Planning Commission over money, workability concerns

“It makes me a little nervous when we’re going to protect something without any guidance on what we’re protecting.”

Richmond public housing authority stops issuing new vouchers amid funding strains

“Under HUD, if you don’t use your allocation, they take it away from you.”