Governor Abigail Spanberger is considering a bill that would help people getting out of prison avoid crippling debt.

Appalachian Power has a plan to move tons of coal ash from its closed generating plant at Glen Lyn in Giles County to a new landfill the company would build nearby in West Virginia.

A decades-long study reveals widespread crab cannibals in northern areas of the bay.

Virginia is the second U.S. state to approve “balcony solar.” Other bills will protect workers from heat exhaustion and better manage energy demand.

"The fact that gas prices are going up astronomically was totally and completely foreseeable,” Gov. Abigail Spanberger said Friday morning.

China currently owns and processes most of the world’s rare earth minerals. The U.S. is making some progress, thanks to a new facility in Blacksburg.

The shooter was a student who had been convicted on terrorism charges.

“This is where I made a gut decision, based upon his record, would not do inappropriate things even if someone in the White House asked him to do that," Sen. Mark Warner said Thursday.

1,200 bills were passed during this year’s General Assembly session; they’re now sitting on the governor’s desk. Michael Pope and Radio IQ Politics Analyst Jeff Schapiro take a look at some of those and discuss the week that was in state government and politics.

When the folks at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service were looking at public school enrollment last year, they expected it to decline by about 10,000 students. It ended up declining by 15,000 students.