Marijuana is currently decriminalized in Virginia. If you’re caught in public consuming it, you can be hit with a $25 civil penalty. But a new budget compromise struck this week increases that fine to $250 and adds new criminal penalties for a second offense and a third offense.

A newly created Governor’s Community Partnership Council on Corrections will work toward change in the state prison system.

The U.S. Supreme Court is known to support second amendment rights. But a decision last week is backing Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones’ effort to enforce a new firearm law.

Virginia’s Department of Workforce Development and Advancement has released a nine-page report that employees and their bosses might want to read. It looks at how artificial intelligence might change or eliminate certain occupations.

Dismantled materials are loaded onto a barge and lowered onto the bay floor several miles offshore.

June 27th marks one year since former University of Virginia president Jim Ryan resigned from his leadership role at the state’s flagship university. Now living in rural Albemarle County, Ryan’s been reading, writing, running—and contemplating what’s next.

Brian White has been athletic director at Florida Atlantic University for the past eight years.

"It's important to recognize compromises don't lead to happiness, but they do lead to relief."

Members of the Virginia General Assembly are back at the Capitol this week to put the final pieces together on a two-year budget. One significant part of that document moves forward with a new marketplace for adult use cannabis.

Peregrines had recovered along the coast because of ample shorebirds to eat. But now their bird-heavy diet is a weakness.