Your local commissioner of revenue appears on your ballot without a party identification. Even if they've won a primary, these constitutional officers like sheriffs or prosecutors; they’re not identified as a Democrat or as a Republican.

Virginia will soon be home to a new digital archive dedicated to the work of Black poets. And supply chain issues are causing serious shortages for school lunch programs.Those have been among the most read stories over the past week at the Virginia Public Access Project's Va. News link.

Shenandoah National Park is preparing to limit the number of people who can visit one of its most popular sites on any given day. As Sandy Hausman reports, Old Rag has been overrun with hikers, creating traffic jams on the trails.

With the variable temperatures we’ve seen this winter, you might wonder what’s happening with Virginia’s sizable population of bears. Are they hibernating? Sandy Hausman put that question to experts at the Wildlife Center of Virginia.

Now that the new year has arrived, the Wildlife Center of Virginia is looking back on 2021, concluding another record year of care for more than 4,000 orphaned, injured or ailing critters. Climate change has, apparently, prompted squirrels to have a second litter of babies later in the fall, so the cutting-edge veterinary hospital treated more of them in November. Raptors also set records. Sandy Hausman reports on why more owls, hawks, falcons and kestrels came in for care.

The bills range from keeping the lights on during weather events and natural disasters to keeping utilities from contributing to political campaigns.

In just his first week in office, Governor Glenn Youngkin has already picked a few fights on several of his campaign promises.Jeff Schapiro of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and Michael Pope discuss Youngkin’s first week.

Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine have not been proven effective to treat COVID-19. But they have supporters, and those supporters packed a Senate committee room at the Capitol this week. They were there to advocate in favor of a bill prohibiting the Board of Medicine from taking disciplinary action against doctors who prescribe them to treat COVID-19.

Governor Glenn Youngkin says he’s directing additional resources to those who have yet to get a COVID-19 vaccine.

The comment came as the president took reporters' questions on Wednesday in a nearly 2-hour-long press conference. "Should we have done more testing earlier? Yes. But we're doing more now," he said.