On April 22, 2023, Governor Glenn Youngkin announced more than 4.52 million people in Virginia’s labor force—the most ever since first recorded in 1976. The labor...
After a years-long process, the Virginia Board of Education on Thursday adopted its latest version of history and social science standards that will go into effect...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached a tentative settlement with Virginia, other states, and environmental groups that sued the agency in 2020, charging that federal...
A TikTok trend of people cashing out unclaimed property held by state governments is helping break records in Virginia’s Treasury Department and fill the pockets of...
Callee Love, a student at William & Mary, is likely to finish her time at the university in two years, thanks to her Southwest Virginia high...
On Saturday, April 22nd, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the Virginia State Police and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will give the public its 23rd...
On March 1, a local Republican official notified state officials the party had decided on a government-run primary to pick its nominee in a contested race...
The use of medication abortion has been rising in Virginia over the past seven years, with more than half of all abortions in the state induced...
As TikTok has mushroomed to more than 150 million monthly U.S. users, so have warnings among both state legislators and members of Congress about its potential...
The Virginia Department of Elections says it has “streamlined” the process of removing dead voters from the rolls by allowing local registrars to use obituaries to...
A commissioner of a federal elections agency recently spoke at a secretive conference of conservative voting activists and Republican secretaries of state and congressional staff —...
April is Alcohol Awareness Month, and Virginia groups are doing their part to educate people about alcohol abuse. The state ranked 22nd for excessive drinking in...
On April 14, 2023, Attorney General Jason Miyares led a bipartisan coalition of the attorneys general of 33 states and the District of Columbia in asking...
Under a law recently passed by the General Assembly, Virginia will require public schools to acquire and maintain automated external defibrillators, or AEDs, a medical device...
A key Democratic senator said he’s meeting with Gov. Glenn Youngkin Wednesday morning to discuss the governor’s stance on restoring voting rights to people with felony...
Heather Vahdat has been advocating for male contraceptive options for nearly a decade, but she is the first to say it is a lonely space to...
As the General Assembly prepares to reconvene Wednesday to vote on bill amendments recommended by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, legislation that would allow the continued use...
On April 10, 2023, Governor Glenn Youngkin announced a record value for Virginia’s agricultural and forestry exports as he unveiled the 2022 export data at the...
Scrolling through UberEats offerings in the Richmond neighborhood of Shockoe Bottom can make the area seem like poultry heaven: The app shows six similar-looking chicken...
Virginia’s public schools continue to face challenges transporting students to school amid ongoing bus driver shortages spurred by factors such as low pay and strict...
A new report outlines ways that states like Virginia could rethink long prison sentences and how to use them more sparingly. The Council on Criminal Justice...
This story is an updated and expanded version of our General Assembly Tracker. In Virginia’s never-sleepy political calendar, April 6 was a red-letter day: the last...
On April 6, 2023, Attorney General Jason Miyares sent a letter to Washington, D.C. Mayor Bowser, and D.C. City Council regarding their inability and refusal to...
Governor Youngkin and First Lady Suzanne S. Youngkin today presented a 2023 Spirit of Virginia Award to Cameron’s Coffee & Chocolates, a business enterprise of the...
Home prices are cooling off, and mortgage rates fell last week, but the fallout from recent bank closures could continue to make it hard for some...
Virginia education leaders are mulling another temporary pause in the use of chronic absenteeism as a factor the state considers in school accreditation decisions because of...
Legislation to increase penalties for alerting police, fire, or emergency medical services personnel to false emergencies passed the General Assembly with bipartisan support and will take...
Gov. Glenn Youngkin recently recommended the General Assembly accept an amended version of a bill that ends the practice of paying a subminimum wage to certain...
Gov. Glenn Youngkin is recommending changes to a pending state law that would require a parent to approve whether or not their child can set up...
A federal jury convicted a Houston, Texas man last week for trafficking large quantities of high-purity methamphetamine from Mexico into Southwest Virginia. According to court documents...