Virginia Beach police will no longer allow the public to listen in on radio communications. And, Charlottesville has joined the effort to reduce plastic bag pollution with a targeted tax.Those have been among the most read stories over the past week at the Virginia Public Access Project's Va. News link.

He's working with a bipartisan group of 50 AGs from across the country to investigate consumer fraud with people pretending to be from Amazon or senior fraud with people pretending to be from Social Security.

What impacts could the Kansas abortion vote have here in Virginia?Jeff Schapiro of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and Michael Pope discuss that and all of this week’s political happenings.

In Virginia, law enforcement officials are the only people allowed to carry guns into schools. But some firearms advocates say Virginia should join the two dozen other states that allow people who are not police or security officials to carry guns into schools.

An electric bike-sharing program has stopped abruptly, after the company, Bolt Mobility, has seemingly ceased operations, catching local officials in the New River Valley off guard and without a plan to move forward.

The numbers also show Virginia has the largest gap between the youngest and oldest localities.

This summer, Congress added the Moton Museum and other sites that played an important role in desegregating schools in South Carolina, Delaware and Washington, D.C. to the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Park in Topeka, Kansas.

Like many laws, the effort to get rid of the sales tax on menstrual products started as an idea.

The Roanoke City-Alleghany Health District reported a slight increase in hospitalizations Tuesday.

Most of the Mountain Valley Pipeline has already been constructed. But many permits are still needed to connect the natural gas pipeline from West Virginia to Virginia. And environmentalists are worried that the deal making now happening in Washington with climate change legislation might open the door to efforts to weaken the permitting process.