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House Speaker Don Scott has a list of 13 Republican-held seats he wants to flip from red to blue. But the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee is spotlighting only eight of those 13 races.

Trump administration policies are playing out on the other side of the Potomac and across Virginia. Radio IQ politics analyst Jeff Schapiro and Michael Pope recap the week in politics and state government.

It’s summer, and that means trouble for some of the state’s oldest prisons. Some still lack air conditioning, and even those with AC may not be keeping cool. Sandy Hausman reports on conditions at the Green Rock Correctional Center in Pittsylvania County.

Officials say it’s likely that hackers were able to get personal information about school and county employees and could have accessed the names, dates of birth and social security numbers of local residents.

The budget reconciliation package recently passed by Congress and signed by the president rolled back many Biden-era environmental initiatives, but not Virginia's wind farm.

Farmers in Virginia face some serious challenges. The climate is changing, bringing more floods and drought. World trade has brought new weeds and insects that can destroy or displace crops. But in Albemarle County one farm owner is hopeful that by improving her land, she can help plants and animals to survive and thrive.

Mary Jane Burton worked on more than 7,000 cases for the Virginia crime lab between 1973 and 1988. Last year, the state began examining cases that made use of Burton’s work.

The main branch of the Roanoke city library is home to one of the longest-running library-based Dungeons & Dragons games in the country.

Democrats and Republicans have different approaches to fighting crime. And those differences are emerging on the campaign trail.

Some good news from the Wildlife Center of Virginia: staff there had been getting calls for nearly two months from people who had seen a fox with something strange around its neck. The animal was finally captured and freed from an uncomfortable plastic collar.