The Senate voted to approve a $9 billion rescission package aimed at clawing back money already allocated for public radio and television.
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The paper is titled High Hurdles, and it concludes that despite receiving less valuable committee seats, women lawmakers often outperform their male colleagues.
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Virginia’s housing shortage looks grim, but builders and developers say incremental change will help“What we’re seeing is economic factors around competitiveness that are putting us at a disadvantage,” Martin Johnson with Virginia Realtors said after a meeting of the Virginia Housing Commission.
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a lower court's decision to restrict abortion pill sales in West Virginia.
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People love to celebrate, and there are holidays for just about every imaginable reason. This month alone there were days to honor caviar, UFOs, video games, corn fritters and vanilla ice cream. Today, the world salutes snakes.
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The partnership, which Youngkin has described as an AI career launchpad, will provide Google-sponsored AI training courses for up to 10,000 Virginians at any given time.
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Legislation introduced during the 2024 General Assembly session created an ombudsman position to oversee the Virginia Department of Corrections.Andrea Sapone took the role in September, and later promised to prioritize an investigation into Red Onion State Prison.
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A group of volunteers in Southwest Virginia celebrated the dedication of a new home for one of the survivors of Hurricane Helene. It’s the final of 91 homes that the group has rebuilt in the Damascus area in the past nine months.
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In the latest change to federal land management, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced its intention to get rid of a rule which prevents road construction and timber harvest on nearly 59 million acres of national forest land.
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Roanoke County is sharing three options for the next stretch of Roanoke River Greenway, which would extend the greenway's terminus on the east side of Roanoke to a section near the Blue Ridge Parkway.
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The Mitchell’s satyr butterfly is the only butterfly in Virginia that’s federally listed as endangered, and scientists are working to preserve the few meadows where these elusive butterflies still exist.
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