The Port of Virginia is taking on additional cargo shipments diverted from Baltimore, Maryland, after a massive ship crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge last...
Gas stations, hotels and a South Hill Kentucky Fried Chicken are on track to receive federal funding to build out electric vehicle charging stations throughout Virginia’s...
Americans are still worried about their financial stability even as their recession fears lessen. High prices at the grocery store and consumers’ memories of their pre-pandemic...
In the summer of 2022, Virginia Sen. Bryce Reeves, R-Spotsylvania, disclosed on a campaign finance report that skill game company Pace-O-Matic had paid for a trip...
As additional funding for lab schools hangs in jeopardy ahead of the state budget’s finalization, the Virginia Board of Education on Thursday voted to advance the...
Flavored vape products lacking Food and Drug Administration approval could be pulled from Virginia shelves, as a pair of identical bills head to Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s...
This year’s presidential election will be the first since generative AI — a form of artificial intelligence that can create new content, including images, audio and...
The Virginia Board of Education on Thursday adopted changes to how the state handles compliance complaints regarding students with disabilities. Since 2019, Virginia has been under...
Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed legislation Thursday that would have established a retail marijuana market in Virginia and raised the state’s minimum wage to $15 per hour,...
Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin handed down several vetoes, amendments and signatures on a number of gun and public safety bills the Democratic-controlled legislature pushed for this...
Legislation to educate consumers on invasive plant species passed in the General Assembly, but not without debate over where signage would be placed. Invasive plant species...
There were few signs of anyone budging in Virginia’s budget standoff Tuesday as Democratic lawmakers gathered on the steps of the state Capitol to portray their...
Virginia’s Board of Wildlife Resources started a process that could require deer and bear hunters to use GPS collars on their dogs and try to notify...
The front yard of Virginia’s Executive Mansion was turned into a miniature farmers market Monday as Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed a bill meant to make life...
For the first time, Virginia Breeze bus lines could offer east-to-west service across the commonwealth, from Harrisonburg to Virginia Beach, starting next summer. An announcement about...
The Virginia Department of Corrections has asked a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit by three current and former female employees who say its policies on...
Two bills that would expand the public’s access to shared solar in Virginia are awaiting a signature from Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin. Shared solar is a...
After top Democrats and community leaders called for the firing of the state’s diversity chief last spring over his “DEI is dead” comments, the General Assembly...
Over 100 fires blazed in several parts of the state this week, burning about 7,500 acres throughout parts of Central, Southwest and Northern Virginia. By early...
In December, Gov. Glenn Youngkin said Virginia should modernize its tax code by closing what he called “the Big Tech tax loophole.” Virginia collects sales taxes...
WASHINGTON — Congressional staff were scrambling Wednesday to finalize sweeping legislation that would fund much of the federal government, but time was running short ahead of...
As Virginia General Assembly members and employees showed up to one of the final workdays of the legislative session, the perennial debate over guns got violently...
The Virginia General Assembly passed a measure three years ago allowing local governments to decrease roadway speed limits in their localities to as low as 15...
In her first few months as a Minnesota state legislator in 2021, state Rep. Kaela Berg often wondered: “What the hell am I doing here?” A...
Virginia routinely performs mathematical audits of elections to ensure there were no major malfunctions with ballots or the machines that scan and count them. An audit...
The Virginia General Assembly proposed in its budget an outside review of the state’s special education dispute resolution system, through legislation designed to address compliance concerns raised...
A pair of Virginia budget amendments that would have required the state to contract with a sole prescription management vendor to administer the commonwealth’s Medicaid prescription...
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin took to social media Monday morning to denounce a pro-Palestine protest that blocked highway traffic in the Richmond region. “It is unacceptable...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a bill that effectively bans TikTok unless the company splits from its Chinese owner ByteDance because of...
WASHINGTON — Senators on the U.S. Senate Rules Committee expressed concerns Tuesday that poll workers may need protection and that artificial intelligence could interfere in the...