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It’s the morning after the first debate in the 2021 campaign for governor.As the political parties spin winners and losers, Jeff Schapiro of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and Michael Pope have some analysis.

The two candidates squared off at Appalachian School of Law in Grundy in a debate where each was trying to frame the election by portraying the other candidate as too extreme

The Virginia Department of Health announced Thursday that a system of scannable barcodes linking to vaccination status was live.

Experts say the pandemic has made a common problem worse for kids. Two of three will have sleep problems before the age of 18.

The Virginia Redistricting Commission will look at long-awaited new political maps on Monday. Wednesday the Commission gave map-drawers a few sets of instructions to draw the maps, but were at a partisan stalemate over directives around districting and race.

Candidates for governor used to do four televised debates. In recent election cycles, they've done three. This year the candidates could agree on only two debates, which means the stakes are super high for the first debate in Grundy this week.

Some localities in the Central Virginia health District are hitting positivity rates of 25% and daily case averages that are the highest since the start of the pandemic.

Virginia Tech is expanding its footprint in northern Virginia, a project that may end up transforming the region by creating a pipeline for careers in technology.

The director of the Roanoke City-Alleghany Health District reported 957 new cases over the past week.

Ever since Virginia created the sales tax back in the late 1960’s, people have been calling for an elimination of the tax on groceries. It hits low-income people the hardest, and it's been a populist message on the campaign trail for Democrats like Henry Howell or Douglas Wilder. Now Republican candidate for governor Glenn Youngkin says it's time to get rid of the grocery tax.