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This General Assembly is debating ways to limit federal immigration activities.

Special interests are hoping to strike it rich with online gambling this year.

Scientists studying human development are working to improve equipment to learn how babies' brains develop. A team at Virginia Tech is starting a study to follow 80 children for four years.

Virginia’s General Assembly is considering a number of pieces of legislation aimed at protecting people against debt collectors.

A bill in the Virginia Senate would allow state regulators to shift some costs away from Dominion Energy's residential power customers and have high-usage data centers pay them instead.

There are an estimated 60-thousand collisions between motor vehicles and wildlife in Virginia annually. It’s a dangerous – sometimes deadly problem, and this year state lawmakers seem poised to do something about it as Sandy Hausman reports.

The University of Virginia will begin its celebration of the nation’s 250th birthday by sharing an original copy of the Declaration of Independence – a document found in an Albany, New York attic in 1955.Sandy Hausman reports on what the public will see.

"I’m cautiously optimistic about some of the resources that may come to bear,” Dr. Laurie Forlano with the Virginia Department of Health said.

One locality confirmed there would be no immigration detention facility in a former state prison while legislative efforts to limit ICE enforcement are advancing.

Members of the Virginia General Assembly are debating ways to protect people from aggressive debt collectors.