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Orange County is known for scenery and history. It’s home to the James Madison Museum, Montpelier and the Wilderness Battlefield, but it may soon be known for another fight – this one over the public’s right to information about planned development. Sandy Hausman has that story:

Virginia political leaders said Thursday that the Inspector General for the General Services Administration is probing the decision to locate the facility in Greenbelt, Maryland, over a site in Virginia.

When Emory and Henry College was built in the 1800s, enslaved Black laborers did much of the work. Now, students at the college are working to memorialize and uncover the names of these workers.

On the campaign trail, candidates talked often about crime and preventing gun violence. Now, they'll be considering legislation to fulfill campaign promises.

Virginia’s governor spoke, today, at a meeting of university administrators convened by the state's secretary of education. The topic: free speech and intellectual diversity.

“She sees it firsthand as someone who needs insulin and recognizes some people have easier access getting affordable insulin than others,” Delegate Karrie Delany said of her daughter's diabetes diagnosis.

For the first time in its 200-year history, the Library of Virginia is collaborating with state and federally-recognized Tribes to present historic documents alongside interviews with tribal members and items loaned by Tribes.

Now that Democrats have won control of the General Assembly, one of their first priorities will be protecting abortion rights.

There are over a million acres in central Appalachia where the land has been altered by strip mining. A new study explores the impact this is having on wetlands in Southwest Virginia.

A more than decade-long struggle to get a new medical facility for newborns in the Roanoke Valley finally reached the finish line Tuesday.