When Hurricane Helene swept across Appalachia last year, it left millions of homes without power. One way to reduce the majority of power outages is to bury lines underground. A researcher at Virginia Tech is looking at improving drilling technology to help utility companies bury power lines with fewer risks.

Southwest Virginia communities waiting for financial assistance from FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the wake of Hurricane Helene will have to wait a little longer.

The Democratic primary for attorney general might end up being an expensive fight between two big-money rivals.

Sergeant Ivor Thornton was in the second wave to land at Omaha Beach and was last seen wading toward the shore.

The developers of the Mountain Valley Pipeline submitted a permit application for a proposed new phase of their project, called MVP Southgate. The application was posted on the Virginia Marine Resources Commission, one of the agencies that reviews permits that cross water.

We’ve heard warnings of sea level rise, seen pictures of massive wildfires and tornadoes, but what has climate change meant for us? One environmentalist spells it out in a new memoir that recounts the loss of more than 1,200 trees in his own neighborhood.

“The purpose of this bill was to send a message that, look, ‘you need to fix it, or we’re going to condemn the building and then tear it down,” Del. Wendell Walker said.

For months, Democrats have tailored their campaigns around anti-Musk sentiment in Virginia, pushing ads blasting his initiative to overhaul federal spending during President Donald Trump's administration.

Campaign finance numbers show the fall campaign season is heating up. A handful of races feature Republican incumbents in districts won by Kamala Harris.

Lots of money talk this week—campaign money, tariff money and state tax money.Jeff Schapiro, political columnist at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and Michael Pope recap the week in politics and state government.