Richmond City Council, backed by Mayor Levar Stoney, approved the bonds at a meeting Wednesday.

The parents claim the system is designed for their complaints to fail.

At the solitary stoplight in Boones Mill along Route 220 in Franklin County sits The Trump Store. Impossible to miss, the store and the town offer a snapshot of America’s political landscape.

Candidates for mayor and City Council in local elections across Virginia are eager to tell you about their labor endorsements.

Eighteen lawmakers from the Virginia General Assembly submitted a letter Tuesday to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, asking the agency to deny the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s request to start running gas by June 1.

According to new numbers from the Virginia Association of Free and Charitable Clinics, demand has increased about 11% over the same time last year.

Campaign finance law in Virginia requires all kinds of disclosure about where campaign cash comes from. But where it goes is another story.

It might come as a surprise in the 21st century – after man has walked on the moon and sent rovers to Mars – that truck brakes actually fail. But on occasion they do. Engineers have designed special ramps at the base of steep hills so drivers can avoid the disastrous consequences of a runaway rig. This spring Virginia unveiled one-of-a-kind for the Commonwealth.

Something surprising is happening in Virginia prisons. A national non-profit is donating thousands of books for inmates and staff. Sandy Hausman reports on the Freedom Reads program, launched by a man who came of age behind bars in Virginia.

Faced with strong criticism on campus and in Charlottesville, the University of Virginia’s president hosted a town hall Tuesday. Jim Ryan and his police chief tried to explain why they called state police to break up a student-led protest against Israeli attacks on civilians in Gaza.