Michael Pope

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.

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.

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

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.

Congressman Bob Good is a Republican who represents central Virginia, and he says parents deserve to know what's happening at Virginia schools. That's why he's calling for cameras in the classroom.

Virginia has three potential sites that could host new semiconductor fabrication plants, and state officials are hoping some of the new money encouraging domestic production of semiconductors might be coming to Virginia.

Last year, Virginia joined 10 other states as a member of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, known as RGGI. The idea is that polluters buy permits, and the money goes toward things like preparing for floods.

The DRIVE 2.0 program will see $10,000 grants sent to 27 communities across Virginia.

What's the economic toll of gun violence? According to Everytown for Gun Safety, it's more than $14 billion a year for Virginia.

Virginia's unemployment rate is at 2.8%. That's the lowest since the start of the pandemic back in March 2020.