As you’re planning meals for Thanksgiving, here's a wild idea: Serve a dish made with invasive plants or animals. It may sound odd, but it just may help protect our environment.

Members of the General Assembly are about to start balancing the books for a new budget. They may consider a proposal that could bring more cash flow to localities across the state.

President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill nixed billions in subsidies to help cover costs of those on marketplace plans.

Virginia's population center, which was near Richmond in 1960, has been moving steadily north ever since. Projections from the Weldon Cooper Center at the University of Virginia show that trend continuing, though at a slightly slower pace.Dwayne Yancey with Cardinal News says it's one more element in a continuing trend in the Commonwealth. He talked about it with Fred Echols.

Whenever there‘s a mass shooting in this country, the question is why. Often the answer is complicated. That’s certainly the case in Charlottesville where a UVA student killed three members of the football team and wounded two others. Craig Wright spoke with reporter Sandy Hausman who covered the trial of Christopher Darnell Jones, Jr. for RadioIQ.

A judge in Charlottesville has handed down five life sentences to Chris Jones – the man who admits to killing three members of the UVA football team and wounding two other students as they returned from a field trip. Sandy Hausman was in the courtroom and filed this report.

Democratic Majority Leader Scott Surovell and his compatriots were holed up at Radford University through Friday.

Barring judicial intervention, Virginia’s law is set to go into effect January 1st.

Labor politics might end up being a flashpoint in the upcoming General Assembly session.

Abigail Spanberger isn’t governor yet, but she’s wasting no time on the gubernatorial transition. Michael Pope and Jeff Schapiro – Radio IQ Politics Analyst – discuss that and the week that was in state politics and government.