Political organizers and candidates are watching to see if they pull younger voters to the polls in an election that could change the balance of power...
October is National Pedestrian Safety Awareness Month. September was Bicyclist and Pedestrian Awareness Month in Virginia. Fatal accidents and injuries involving road users increased last year,...
Virginia voters can cast their ballots for the November election starting Friday, Sept. 23. Legislators have passed in recent years voting reform measures that expand access...
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.