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.

As the campaigns for and against the effort intensify, so does that language and imagery used in their ads.

Artemis moon trees have been planted across the state in recent years, including at the Virginia Zoo and NASA Langley Research Center.

Between 2000 and 2020, Crozet’s population more than tripled, growth that’s crowded schools, created water worries, and snarled traffic. A new roundabout now aims to ease commuters’ ride from the rural hamlet, even if not everyone’s convinced, as

Members of the Virginia General Assembly were considering a Senate bill to get rid of the last Confederate statues in Richmond until a House committee killed the bill. But that effort to ditch the statues is not a lost cause.

New legislation waiting for action by the governor will require nursing home ownership transfers to be reviewed by the Virginia Department of Health.

A shared-use commercial kitchen in Charlottesville provides a fully-equipped facility for weekend culinary entrepreneurs and established caterers, bakers, pizza chefs, and more. Recent state and federal grant awards will help the social enterprise expand.