Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears on Thursday evening officially announced her candidacy for governor of Virginia in the upcoming 2025 election, aiming to become the nation’s first...
Governor Glenn Youngkin and First Lady Suzanne S. Youngkin are stepping up their battle against the fentanyl crisis in Virginia. During a visit to CARITAS, a...
The Virginia Board of Education on Wednesday approved the final touches on the state’s Every Student Succeeds Act plan, designed to address concerns with how schools...
With the final big travel weekend of summer just around the corner, the Virginia State Police is urging all drivers to practice safe driving habits to...
The North Atlantic Ocean has been running a fever for months, with surface temperatures at or near record highs. But cooling along the equator in both the...
In the 18 months after Francine Milano was diagnosed with a recurrence of the ovarian cancer she thought she’d beaten 20 years ago, she traveled twice...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved an updated COVID-19 vaccine intended to address severe symptoms of the virus ahead of the cold and...
On Friday, August 23, 2024, Virginia State Police proudly welcomed 21 new troopers into its ranks. These graduates, representing the 141st generation of Virginia State Troopers,...
In a significant boost to the local economy, Desi Fresh Foods, a leading U.S. producer of South Asian yogurt, has announced plans to open a new...
Legal gaming has surged to new heights in Virginia, transforming into a multibillion-dollar annual market as the state’s expanding casinos, sports betting, and online gaming sectors...
Virginia students’ reading and math assessments for the 2023-24 school year saw some improvement over last year after months of recovery efforts, according to data released...
In June, amid a bitterly contested Republican gubernatorial primary race, a short video began circulating on social media showing Utah Gov. Spencer Cox purportedly admitting to...
Walkouts over mask mandates, overhauled transgender policies and gun violence have disrupted some high schools in Virginia in recent years. Now with public schools underway in...
While the sense of what makes a place a home can be strong, Jana Hobbs knows how fragile the ability to remain in a home can...
A federal judge ordered Hanover County Public Schools late Friday to temporarily cease blocking a transgender middle school student from trying out for and, if selected,...
Governor Glenn Youngkin took a significant step toward enhancing child care and supporting working families in Virginia by signing ten bipartisan bills. These new laws are...
Virginia’s economy continues to show resilience, with the state’s unemployment rate holding steady at 2.7% in July, significantly lower than the national average of 4.3%. Governor...
Gov. Glenn Youngkin formally announced a cross-agency strategy to support formerly incarcerated people after their release. Executive Order 36 directs several state departments to coordinate with...
Of the roughly 2 million Virginians who’d been enrolled in Medicaid before the COVID-19 pandemic, over 480,000 of them have been disenrolled as of this August....
In an exciting development for horse racing enthusiasts, Governor Glenn Youngkin announced today that the Virginia Derby at Colonial Downs racetrack will become a qualifying race...
Since America was founded nearly 250 years ago, debates about immigration policy have ebbed and flowed. And with crossings at the U.S.’s southern border higher in...
As Virginia schools reopen for a new school year, most of those serving low-income students or those identified as “at-risk” will receive $371.3 million in additional...
The Port of Virginia’s expanded central rail yard is fully-operational signaling the completion of a project giving the port the capacity to process 2 million twenty-foot...
Governor Glenn Youngkin has declared a state of emergency for Virginia in anticipation of Tropical Storm Debby. Forecasts from the National Weather Service and the National...
A Virginia man is being prosecuted in federal court after he allegedly made a series of online posts threatening to kill or harm Vice President Kamala...
Governor Glenn Youngkin has unveiled the third annual Unified Regulatory Plan (URP), outlining anticipated regulatory changes for the Commonwealth of Virginia in the fiscal year 2025....
Virginia’s school bus driver vacancy rate has decreased by five percent over the past three school years, according to the Virginia Department of Education. After the...
Emergency room visits in Virginia by people who reported vaping more than doubled between 2020 and 2023, according to a data analysis released this week by...
Senate Republicans and two independents blocked a bipartisan tax package Thursday that would have temporarily expanded the child tax credit and revived tax breaks for some...
After a Virginia school district made headlines around the world for rebranding two schools with Confederate leaders’ names, two rising seniors at one of the schools are...