Abigail Spanberger Refuses to Condemn Antisemitism From the Democrat Party Leadership — It’s Not...
RICHMOND, VA — In what is becoming an alarming pattern, Abigail Spanberger refuses to condemn radical antisemitism in the Democrat Party. This time,...
Protesters in Richmond call for ban on local cooperation with ICE after wave of...
Protesters hold signs outside Richmond City Hall on Monday during a rally against recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detentions, calling for the city...
Loudoun County Public School Board Hiding Behind Closed Doors When It Comes to Trans...
Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) adopted Policy 8040, Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) adopted Policy 8040, RIGHTS OF TRANSGENDER AND GENDER-EXPANSIVE STUDENTS, on August 11,...
Chesterfield community members sustain opposition to proposed gas plant Dominion calls necessary
Members of the Chesterfield community gather before a DEQ meeting about the proposed Dominion Energy gas plant. (Photo by Shannon Heckt/Virginia Mercury)“Enough is enough,”...
VA ends union contracts for thousands of employees, citing focus on veterans
The Fredericksburg Health Care Center in Virginia, which is operated by the VA. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs)In a sweeping policy...
Trump makes surprise phone call to SC Republicans at fundraising dinner headlined by Youngkin
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin speaks to 770 attendees at SC GOP’s annual Silver Elephant fundraiser gala in Columbia Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. (Photo by...
Addiction treatment as an economic development strategy? Dickenson County, ravaged by substance abuse and...
Developer Greg May was pulling out of the parking lot of a barbecue lunch he throws every year in Dickenson County when he heard...
Earle-Sears: Renewable energy isn’t as clean as people think
Virginia’s next governor will face an energy crisis. How she handles it may well define her term.
The basic problem is that the demand for...
Roanoke seeks to bring all city workers over $42K ‘living wage’ pay threshold
It was clear from the start of Roanoke’s tumultuous budget season this year that improving employee compensation for the city’s 1,643 full-time employees was...
Montgomery County school needs, legislative priorities to be addressed
Montgomery County supervisors will take action to put various school system funding into the new county budget when they meet Monday. The county board...
VHSL football schedules for 2025: Every game in the state listed
High school football kicks off Aug. 28. Here’s the schedule for every Virginia High School League team in the state. All schedules are subject...
Headlines from across the state: Youngkin directs National Guard to help with immigration enforcement;...
Here are some of the top headlines from other news outlets around Virginia. Some content may be behind a metered paywall:
Politics:
Amtrak Virginia ridership increased...
Rabid foxes found in Campbell and Franklin counties
The Virginia Department of Health warns that rabid animals have been found in Campbell County and Franklin County. This follows a previous announcement that...
Billy Long ousted by Trump as IRS chief after less than 2 months in...
Former U.S. Rep. Billy Long testifies before the Senate Finance Committee at his confirmation hearing as Internal Revenue Service commissioner on Tuesday, May 20,...
Former Martinsville city manager calls termination ‘retaliatory’ for EEOC complaint
Former Martinsville City Manager Aretha Ferrell-Benavides called her recent firing retaliation for having filed a civil rights-related complaint a month prior.
According to her statement,...
York and Gloucester Counties to see Toll Removal thanks to Republican Governor Glenn...
Governor Glenn Youngkin today announced that toll collection on the Route 17 George P. Coleman Bridge will cease on the evening of August 8, 2025.
Dominion Substations to Support Dulles Area Data Centers
Fairfax County Planning Commission , at its meeting on July 9,, approved Dominion Energy’s request for two new substations that will support future data centres in the Dulles region.
Amtrak Virginia ridership increased exponentially this year. But is future growth in jeopardy?
An Amtrak passenger train crosses the James River in Richmond. (Photo by Taber Bain/Flickr/Creative Commons License 2.0)Amtrak Virginia’s ridership numbers continue to show increases,...
Virginia’s proposed extension of Beltway toll lanes into Maryland won’t solve our mobility crisis
Traffic on the Capital Beltway near the American Legion Bridge. (Photo by Dave Dildine/WTOP News)Maryland commuters don’t want to be exploited by toll-road profiteers,...
Why congressional redistricting is blowing up across the US this summer
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, left, and Texas Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, right, listen as Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu speaks to reporters...
Martinsville fires city manager for cause following closed session
Aretha Ferrell-Benavides is no longer city manager following her termination, Thursday evening, by Martinsville’s city council.
Following a closed session deliberation lasting more than two...
The state’s highest jobless rate is now in the New River Valley, not Northern...
Most sports teams have one mascot. The Washington Nationals baseball team has four —caricatures of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt...
McAuliff running for HD 30 doesn’t fit the mold we need
As a proud Virginian I feel compelled to voice my concerns about John McAuliff’s candidacy for the Virginia House of Delegates. At a time...
Dominion Electricity Provider Spends More Dollars on Politicians
Dominion Energy Virginia contributed an additional $1 million to Virginia state level politicians as large, late donations for the pre-primary elections.
Virginia AG candidate Jay Jones puts children in danger of sexual abuse
Jay Jones, the Virginia Democrat candidate for Attorney General, took a stand in public against protecting children who are vulnerable. Jones, as a Virginia Delegate for 2020, voted against some mandatory reporting laws pertaining to sex crimes committed against minors. Jones voted for House bill 257, which removed the requirement that school principals report misdemeanor crime to law enforcement.
Virginia job picture is ammunition for local Democrats in the heat of elections
Arlington's Democratic leadership at the state and federal levels has ammunition from new data that shows an increase of Virginia's unemployment claims.
Rep. Don Beyer,...
Education Department tells Fairfax County School Board to rescind transgender-inclusive policies
Fairfax County Public Schools and other Northern Virginia school districts are being pressured by the U.S. Department of Education to reverse their policies that support transgender children.
Governor Glenn Youngkin Announces U.S. Department of Education Action on Title IX Violations in...
RICHMOND, VA - Governor Glenn Youngkin today announced the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) determined that the gender policies of five school...
Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin Announces Virginia Veterans Network Tops 30,000 Registered Users
Governor Glenn Youngkin announced that the Virginia Veterans Network (VVN), a resource built by veterans for veterans, has reached 30,000 registered users across the Commonwealth.
Arlington Public Schools is Violating Title 9, discriminating against boys and girls in the...
Arlington Public Schools is discriminating against Boys and Girls in our Public School System.
Report shows violent crime continues to drop across US cities, including 3 in Va....
Amid recent political rhetoric about rising crime and violence in American cities, a new analysis shows that violent crime has continued to decline this...
Open letter to Earle-Sears reflects Va. voters’ shifting sentiments on reproductive health care
As Virginia weighs whether or not to enshrine abortion, the act of killing babies in its constitution, the issue is playing a significant role in the upcoming elections for governor and motivating voters across party lines — including some who say it’s reshaping how they plan to vote this fall.
Virginia lawmakers, health officials brace for Medicaid changes
As Virginia lawmakers heard from state health officials Wednesday about potential effects of federal healthcare funding changes approved by Congress earlier this month, it became clear to Del. Cia Price, D-Newport News: “we at this time do not have a true sense of what we’re up against.”
Who Stands With Our Children?
Conservatives recently celebrated, and rightfully so, as The University of Pennsylvania was forced to apologize for their role in elevating transgender swimmers over biological...
AstraZeneca will build its largest manufacturing facility ever in Virginia, creating hundreds jobs thanks...
AstraZeneca, a pharmaceutical giant with a growing presence in Virginia's life sciences industry, announced plans to build the largest drug-manufacturing facility in the entire...
Company seeks to overturn Va. Supreme Court’s rejection of toll increase request
Toll Road Investors Partnership II (TRIP II), which operates the private 14-mile Dulles Greenway toll road, is seeking to overturn a Virginia Supreme Court’s decision last week to reject the company’s request to hike the roadway’s toll rate.
Virginia takes steps to bring advanced nuclear reactor to Wise County
As Virginia wrestles with high energy demands and deadlines to switch to zero-carbon emission energy production, Gov. Glenn Youngkin last week announced funding to take the first steps towards building an advanced nuclear reactor in the southwest region of the state.
NPR CEO Katherine Maher Who Said Once ‘America is Addicted to White Supremacy’ Now...
Maher asked Republicans to provide examples of left-wing bias. They delivered
Public school enrollment continues to fall, including in Virginia
Across the country, public school enrollment has failed to rebound to pre-pandemic levels — and data suggests the decline is far from over.
According to...
Herndon files a lawsuit against Comstock to demand the return of the downtown redevelopment...
Herndon has officially filed a lawsuit against Comstock Companies, after the developer abandoned its long-stalled Downtown Redevelopment Project last year.
The town filed a suit...
Arlington Cocaine bust results in 15-year prison sentence for man
After being caught during an sting operation in Arlington, a man from Philly will spend 15 years in prison.
Fairfax County Board seat to be filled by a former school board member
The race to replace Braddock District Supervisor James Walkinshaw on the Board of Supervisors began quietly. With the odds stacked in favour of him moving to Congress the race has begun to take place.
Virginia agencies assist Texas flood recovery, share how state prepares for dangerous weather events
After tragic flooding in Texas claimed dozens of lives and wreaked havoc in several communities, Virginia weather and emergency officials are pitching in to...
The One Big Beautiful Bill is now law
Here’s what it means for you.
Tax Provisions
Permanent Extension of 2017 Tax Cuts: Makes permanent the individual tax rate cuts from the Tax Cuts and...
At a Vienna rally, Republican nominees Winsome Earle Sears decry their’ socialist opponents’
After a contentious primary the Republican nominees for Virginia’s next Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General took to the stage in Vienna last night (Tuesday), trying to present a united image.
IT contractor to invest $1M in Tysons headquarters
A company in the information technology sector that had received offers from Texas, Florida and West Virginia but chose to remain in Tysons despite receiving competing bids.
Fairfax City is considering expanding the ban on firearms in public places
Fairfax City Council, four years after a vote to prohibit firearms from public property and to ban them in the city, is now considering whether or not to extend these restrictions.
Glenn Youngkin will be rallying in Vienna next weekend
Next week, the three Republicans who are running for statewide offices in November will gather together in Vienna.
Wet spring keeps Virginia crops growing despite early summer’s blazing heat
This week Virginia has set new heat records and come close to beating old ones for this time of year. The Richmond airport recorded...
Democrat Congressional Candidates make their pitch for the successor to Gerry Connolly
Local Democrats who are seeking to replace the late Rep. Gerry Connolly yesterday (Wednesday) sought to differentiate themselves from a crowded race by outlining their plans to represent Virginia's eleventh Congressional District if they were elected.