A sex scandal is the latest flashpoint for the fall campaign season.Jeff Schapiro, political columnist at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and Michael Pope recap the week in politics and state government.

The latest round of Census numbers shows that child poverty has doubled nationwide.

Shenandoah National Park is 200,000 acres of trees and trails, waterfalls and wildlife, rocky peaks and pristine views. Now, it’s also a movie star of sorts – the subject of a documentary series tentatively titled Green to Gold.

There was a rare moment of bipartisanship at the Virginia Capital in Richmond Thursday when Glenn Youngkin signed a long overdue, bipartisan budget.

The ongoing labor dispute between the TV and film writers guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers may seem miles away from Virginia, but the Commonwealth’s cinematic footprint has grown in recent years.

More people are leaving Virginia than moving in.

Back in 2020, the General Assembly voted to allow collective bargaining with public employees. It wasn’t required, but if communities wanted to negotiate with unions, that would be possible in Virginia. So far, only a dozen of the 132 school districts in the state have started the process. Richmond, Charlottesville, Norfolk and several communities in Northern Virginia are well underway, but Albemarle County, Petersburg and three other school boards are struggling.

Voters will head to the polls starting later this month to select all 140 members of the General Assembly. Michael Pope has this report on new polling showing what issues are on their minds.

Some of Youngkin's education officials pushed back on the data used by the non-partisan commission.

$50 million in new funding is headed to the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute. The money is from Red Gates Foundation, which is based in Richmond, and will fund research into brain science and cancer.