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Byline: Laura Vozzella, Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND - A few dozen activists rallied for gun rights on Monday - and bemoaned the small turnout at the annual demonstration, which in [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND - Virginia House Speaker Don Scott (D-Portsmouth) and his wife, Mellanda, were having their coffee and slowly getting ready for church Sunday morning when the [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND - Behind the scenes of a General Assembly session that kicked off this week with arguments about divisive issues such as abortion, an unusual bipartisan [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider, Laura Vozzella RICHMOND - When the Virginia House of Delegates on Tuesday took up a proposed constitutional amendment to automatically restore felon voting rights, one politically [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider, Laura Vozzella RICHMOND - Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) called for tax cuts, dismantling the state's package of environmental laws and making it a felony to fly [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND - The city's main reservoir filled overnight and the water distribution system was at full pressure Thursday morning, officials said, but a water-boil advisory could [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider, Laura Vozzella RICHMOND - This year's General Assembly session is scheduled to start at noon Wednesday, but a weather-related water outage in the capital city has [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider, Laura Vozzella RICHMOND - A line of blue port-a-johns stood outside the State Capitol on Wednesday as the Virginia General Assembly convened for all of about [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND - Most city residents woke up to no water from the taps again Wednesday, but Mayor Danny Avula said in a morning news conference that [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND - In the late spring of 2020, Mayor Levar Stoney stood on the steps of City Hall and faced the angriest crowd he'd ever seen. [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider CULPEPER, Va. - There is no way to atone for what happened to Charles Allie Thompson, William Thompson and William Grayson, Black men lynched in this [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider, Laura Vozzella RICHMOND - Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) delivered an upbeat budget message on Wednesday to the Democratic-controlled General Assembly, saying soaring revenue surpluses would fund [...]

Byline: Laura Vozzella, Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND - A company pioneering the use of fusion for commercial energy plans to build the nation's first grid-scale fusion power plant in Chesterfield [...]

Byline: Laura Vozzella, Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND - A company pioneering the use of fusion for commercial energy plans to build the nation's first grid-scale fusion power plant in Virginia [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider FRONT ROYAL, Va. - Hour upon hour, residents marched to the lectern - grandparents, home-schoolers, veterans, teachers, merchants, farmers, students - an unlikely cross-section of this [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND - Mattaponi tribal Chief Mark T. Falling Star Custalow parked his white Chevy Silverado in front of the Virginia Executive Mansion and, with the help [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider, Laura Vozzella RICHMOND - A circuit court judge has ruled that Gov. Glenn Youngkin's effort to remove Virginia from a carbon cap-and-trade market called the Regional [...]

Byline: Teo Armus, Gregory S. Schneider Democrats and Republicans were projected to split Virginia's two most competitive congressional contests, with each party holding onto one of these battleground districts as [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider, Teo Armus, Laura Vozzella The Northern Virginia suburbs shifted slightly toward President-elect Donald Trump in Tuesday's election, defying conventional wisdom about the D.C. area's status as [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider Rep. Jen Kiggans (R) defeated Democratic challenger Missy Cotter Smasal for a second term in Congress representing the Virginia Beach-centered 2nd District, considered one of the [...]

Byline: Laura Vozzella, Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND - Gov. Glenn Youngkin leads a purple state, but he rolled out the MAGA-red carpet for Donald Trump on Saturday, welcoming the former [...]

Byline: Ann E. Marimow, Justin Jouvenal, Gregory S. Schneider A divided Supreme Court cleared the way Wednesday for Virginia officials to remove about 1,600 people from the state's voter registration [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider SUFFOLK, Va. - House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) leaned over the pool table in the Chop Shop barbershop and aimed the 10-ball at the [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider, Erin Cox, Meagan Flynn, Phoebe Connelly Early voting has officially begun across the entire Washington region, with Monday marking the first day to do so in [...]

Byline: Emily Guskin, Gregory S. Schneider, Laura Vozzella, Scott Clement Vice President Kamala Harris holds a six-point edge over former president Donald Trump among likely voters in Virginia, according to [...]

Byline: Laura Vozzella, Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND, Va. - Former president Donald Trump, full of bravado as he seeks a return to the White House, swaggers even in a state [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND - The race has tightened in Virginia's red-leaning 2nd Congressional District, with incumbent Jen Kiggans (R) nearly tied with Democratic challenger Missy Cotter Smasal in [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND - Mayor Levar Stoney felt frustrated in his efforts to get an outdoor advertising company to relinquish a billboard standing atop a historic African burying [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider, Laura Vozzella RICHMOND - Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) has been warning that illegal immigration poses a threat to democracy as he campaigns this fall for [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider When Casey Shaw and Bryan Watts motored their Boston Whaler into Craney Island Creek this summer looking for osprey nests, they hoped to find a pair [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider NEAR CENTER CROSS, Va. - The brown waters of Dragon Run meander through shaggy banks of duckweed and arrow arum before melting into the forest. Insects [...]

Byline: Laura Vozzella, Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND - Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears will seek her party's nomination for Virginia governor next year, she announced Thursday, kicking off a historic [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND - Vice President Kamala Harris is running roughly even with former president Donald Trump among likely Virginia voters, according to a new poll from Roanoke [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider, Laura Vozzella RICHMOND - Virginia House Speaker Don Scott (D-Portsmouth) recently called for the ouster of a member of the George Mason University Board of Visitors [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND - A federal court has thrown out a lawsuit challenging Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's process for restoring voting rights for people convicted of a felony, [...]

Byline: Laura Vozzella, Gregory S. Schneider Former president Donald Trump touts himself as a businessman who will grow industry and jobs, but his policy proposals call for deep cuts and [...]

A former employee's move to California did not preclude enforcement of a post-employment noncompete agreement. First Circuit rules California's public policy banning noncompete agreements does not supersede Massachusetts law permitting [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND - This city tried hard to purge its landscape of reminders of slavery. The old slave jail, the auction blocks, even the African burying grounds [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND - Virginia delegates to the Democratic National Convention voted overwhelmingly to endorse Vice President Harris as their choice for presidential nominee during an internal survey [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider, Karina Elwood RICHMOND - The Virginia General Assembly voted Thursday to roll back cuts to a popular tuition waiver program for military families, resolving a self-inflicted [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider, Antonio Olivo RICHMOND - Money is flowing into Virginia's most competitive congressional races this year, with the latest campaign finance reports showing a cash advantage for [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND, Va. - Former president Donald Trump leads President Biden in Virginia by three percentage points in a new Virginia Commonwealth University-Wilder School poll, but the [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider It seemed like the simplest of things - the sound of her own voice. But Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.) 'cried happy tears' recently when she typed [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider - - - Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly reported that Richmond acquired two acres at the heart of Shockoe Hill three years ago. [...]

Byline: Jordan D. Brown, Michael Brice-Saddler, Gregory S. Schneider - - - Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly reported that Metro fares went up Monday, July 1. They [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider CHESAPEAKE, Va. - Virginia's Republican leaders wholeheartedly embraced former president Donald Trump on Friday, touting him at a rally in this southern Hampton Roads city as [...]

Byline: Peter Hermann, Paul Duggan, Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND, Va. - Federal authorities on Thursday announced that they now believe a convicted serial rapist from Ohio killed two female hikers [...]

Byline: Peter Hermann, Paul Duggan, Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND - Federal authorities on Thursday announced that they now believe a convicted serial rapist from Ohio killed two female hikers nearly [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider, Karina Elwood WOODSTOCK, Va. - A.D. Carter V worries about the pressure he'll feel next year when he walks through the doors of the newly renamed [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider HARRISONBURG, Va. - Donald Stevens couldn't make it to Normandy this year for the 80th anniversary of D-Day on Thursday, but he considers his spirit to [...]