General Assembly 2026

Governor Abigail Spanberger held the first meeting of her Commission on Unlocking Housing Production Thursday. The effort aims to increase housing supply across the Commonwealth.

While states like New York and South Carolina have expansive no distracted driving laws that encompass pretty much any cell phone use, one legal analyst said Virginia’s laws still leave room for improvement.

Many of the settlement reforms align with changes demanded by Senator Vanvalkenburg under a 2025 state law he authored but is currently on hold with the courts.

“At a time when families are already struggling to afford healthcare and groceries, the President and his allies in Congress— including some of our fellow Virginians— have made the deepest cuts to Medicaid and SNAP in history,” Gov. Abigail Spanberger told legislators.

“We heard there are ever evolving threats. These issues are constantly changing," Jones said. "So, one bill in 2026 is not going to be able to solve this issue for forever.”

The news comes as Dominion also announced a delay in completion for CVOW, though it's already generating power.

“It has made my logistics, the order taking, keeping tracking of orders, logistics, 100 percent better,” one Sterling-based baker told Radio IQ.

Opposite-sex divorce still makes up the lion's share of divorces in Virginia, about 98%.

These fights aren’t happening in vacuum; last year Democrats picked up more than a dozen seats in the House of Delegates and swept every executive seat, running partly on a message of new limits on firearms.

When Virginia starts its legal marijuana market next July, a number of state criminal laws will change.