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As thousands of Virginians with certain past felony convictions remain in a voting registration limbo, civil rights groups filed a motion on June 18 seeking an expedited remedy.The groups accused election of...
Virginia lawmakers want to examine consolidating Northern Virginia’s transit agencies to assess potential cost savings and service improvements.
A new council convened by Gov. Abigail Spanberger aims to help solve longstanding issues in Virginia’s prisons that residents and correctional officers have expressed concerns about for years.
• “State lawmakers want to cover cost of demolishing Richmond Coliseum.” — Richmond Times-Dispatch
America 250 event to light up the Virginia Museum of History and Culture and more headlines
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has pitched the possibility of leasing areas of the outer continental shelf off Virginia’s shores for mineral mining.
If virtue signaling has a Trump-era corollary, we might call it vice signaling. That’s what President Donald Trump’s most recent package of subsidies for the coal industry looks like: it infuriates the e...
The Virginia Board of Education may delay the full implementation of the state’s plan to raise academic benchmarks for reading and math by two years, rather than gradually increasing them over a four-year...
The Virginia General Assembly allocated $10.6 million for DEQ to help contain toxic leachate spilling from Shoosmith Landfill in Chesterfield County.
“It wasn't a question that they asked, it was more of a ‘this is what we have to do to make sure that you live,’” Oakley said.
Virginia Attorney Jay Jones joined a coalition of 22 Democratic attorneys general Wednesday urging a federal judge in Florida to closely examine a controversial settlement tied to President Donald Trump’s...
Background checks on private Virginia firearms sales to resume in July and more headlines
Higher education leaders in Virginia and Ohio announced Thursday that they will join forces to create a model for three-year bachelor's degrees, cutting the traditional timeframe of obtaining the credential...
Officials say $650 million from RGGI fund to be split between flood mitigation projects and energy efficiency for low-income residents.
Virginia U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, a Democrat who carried provisions of the housing bill, emphasized that potential path forward on Thursday despite what he called Trump’s “temper tantrum.”
“State legislatures must retain the ability to identify a problem in their communities and to enact meaningful, responsive policy," Virginia Del. Jackie Glass, D-Norfolk, wrote in a letter opposing the pro...
On Tuesday, the Virginia Senate released its latest budget proposal that preserves a sales and use tax exemption for the data center industry.
From support for legislation and ballot referendums to helping states stockpile abortion and miscarriage management drug mifepristone, a growing cohort of governors are banding together as the Reproductive...
• “Justice Department sues Virginia over mask ban and ID requirements for federal officers.” — WTVR
Oh yay, another commission. Leaders in the House of Delegates are continuing to tweak their version of a state budget, but they aren’t backing down from their fight with the Senate over data centers. What...
By Nick McNamara/WHRO William & Mary’s Lemon Project helps African Americans in Williamsburg uncover their families’ histories and the role their relatives played in shaping the college, the city and the...
• “Virginia budget leaders reach ‘agreement in principle’ for deal.” — Richmond Times-Dispatch
We wanted to learn for ourselves how much water local communities have promised to Amazon for data center cooling in our part of the state, the region between Northern Virginia and Richmond, including Louisa...