Shenandoah National Park is now nearly 1,000 acres larger after what park officials described as a crucial land acquisition for furthering the mission of the park and its conservation efforts.
The Pet Poison Helpline reported an increase nationwide and in Virginia of calls concerning cannabis poisoning in household pets.
On Apr. 1, Sgt. First Class Gary Williams from Fort Belvoir found out he won the Virginia lottery jackpot worth $143,553.
Virginia’s public schools continue to face challenges transporting students to school amid ongoing bus driver shortages spurred by factors such as low pay and strict safety and retirement regulations.
Del. Kaye Kory, D-Fairfax, announced her retirement Monday from the Virginia House of Delegates.
In normal years, Virginia’s budget plan is supposed to be pretty much done by April except for any late changes recommended by the governor.
An unexpected and severe geomagnetic storm brought a rare appearance of the Northern Lights to Virginia late Thursday night.
Virginia has one of the lowest state unemployment rates in the nation, but it rose last month and is now higher than it was a year ago.
In an about-face, Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration said he supports legislation that would eliminate higher premiums on health insurance for tobacco users in Virginia. Youngkin vetoed similar bipartisan legislation last year on the grounds that it would increase health care costs for Vir…
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A public health warning has been issued by Virginia state health officials as a deadly meningococcal disease outbreak continues to spread in eastern Virginia.
Virginia lawmakers recently passed a bill with near-unanimous support that would require pornograpy websites to more stringently verify whether a person is 18 before allowing them access to the site. However, some say the legislation raises data privacy concerns while doing little to keep mi…
Forty million people in the U.S. are having difficulty affording household expenses, and a little more than 25 million people say they sometimes or often do not have enough to eat, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s most recent Household Pulse survey data.
A bill to require the cataloging of visual depictions of graphic sexual content available in school libraries passed the Virginia House, but did not pass the Senate.
Both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly voted Friday to pass a bill to toughen regulations on hemp-derived products that contain intoxicating THC through a more robust permitting system and stricter labeling rules.
A pony has been the Chincoteague High School mascot as long as anyone can remember, but now it is headed for a bigger arena as the official state pony.
Virginia lawmakers this week shot down the last bill of seven introduced to reverse the adopted California standard on electric vehicles Tuesday afternoon.
A bill that would allow police chiefs to declare temporary curfews during civil unrest passed in the Virginia House last week.
No weenie jokes this year. Cocktail wieners have fallen from grace as Virginians' most popular Super Bowl food, replaced now by the more respectable buffalo wings.
Several products from the highly collectible Van Winkle line will be available through online lotteries through February and March.
