Despite some recent rain, Virginia remains in a drought—the latest insult for vineyards where grape crops were crushed by an early freeze followed by extreme temperatures.

Roanoke is in year two of a three-year partnership with USA Cycling to host the Endurance Mountain Bike National Championships. They started Sunday with a marathon event at Carvins Cove and continue through this weekend.

After decades of campaigning against the use of tobacco, public health experts say the number of young people who smoke has been rising.

Opposite-sex divorce still makes up the lion's share of divorces in Virginia, about 98%.

Kent Carpenter had been a biological sciences professor at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, since 1996. His research — which focused on the Philippines and the Coral Triangle between the Indian and Pacific oceans — shaped conservation efforts around the world.

Voters in Virginia and Nevada — both states where abortion is already legal through at least 24 weeks of pregnancy — are considering state constitutional amendments to create a right to abortion.

The Roanoke Valley is hosting Endurance Mountain Bike National Championships this week. The event is yet another feather in the cap for the region's cycling community. And for local mountain bikers, it’s just the latest summit in a decades-long uphill grind for respectability.

These fights aren’t happening in vacuum; last year Democrats picked up more than a dozen seats in the House of Delegates and swept every executive seat, running partly on a message of new limits on firearms.

Data shows Virginia has more than 17,000 unfilled registered nurse positions.

Virginia Tech communication professors are partnering with the CDC to help prevent diseases that ticks and mosquitoes can bring.