An estimated 10% of Virginians were food insecure before the COVID-19 pandemic; that percentage increased to 22% between April and May 2020, according to the Virginia...
By Josephine Walker Many small cannabis entrepreneurs say large companies are jockeying to lock them out of the industry and have funding that gives them more...
Despite commitments from both major parties to improve on and regulate the marijuana industry, cannabis advocates say the General Assembly has left a flourishing industry in...
State legislators did not advance a Virginia House bill that advocates said would have provided more information to women seeking an abortion and which opponents saw...
A bill that seeks to limit the use of isolated—or solitary— confinement in Virginia’s correctional facilities now faces the Republican-controlled House, who voted down a similar...
Despite last year’s compromise involving a phased state ban on food containers made from a plastic foam called polystyrene, both chambers of Virginia’s General Assembly are...
A Senate committee could debate a bill that would reverse a policing law intended to reduce racial profiling.
A proposed constitutional amendment making headway in the Virginia General Assembly seeks to grant former felons the right to vote.
New legislation in Virginia will soon give some power to local governments and help environmental organizations and businesses combat plastic pollution.
Virginia Commonwealth University’s Institute for Contemporary Art recently celebrated its third anniversary after a year marked by a four-month pandemic closure and declining attendance.