RICHMOND — Two Virginia General Assembly bills seeking to strengthen the state’s Freedom of Information Act will advance to the House calendar.
Ford Motor Co. notified Virginia that it had selected the Southern Virginia Mega Site at Berry Hill for an electric battery plant prior to Gov. Glenn Youngkin scuttling the plan, according to two people with knowledge of the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity. Ford was also workin…
It’s gotten a lot easier to gamble in Virginia as the state and local governments chase extra tax dollars from the lottery, casinos, sports betting, horse racing and slots parlors.
The Virginia General Assembly has passed lots of legislation on charitable gaming lately. So much, in fact, that a state senator now claims his colleagues passed a law that accidentally canceled out a different law approved two weeks earlier.
Officials who oversee a struggling state higher-education center in Martinsville met Friday to plan the agency's future, and lamented the lack of assistance they said they receive from a non-profit group whose mission is to help them.
The board of New College Institute, a struggling higher-education center in Martinsville, will meet Friday for a retreat in what is the board's first gathering since late June.
On this episode of Rewind: Your Week in Review, Emilee and JR discuss the Wisconsin Elections Commission deadlocking on election observer guidance. The state Elections Commission rejected a GOP effort to provide new guidance on what observers can do at the polls next month as Democrats compl…
One seeks to help train more teachers. The other is meant to help students who fell behind during the pandemic get back on track.
Here are photos from last night's Cheney watch party, where the congresswoman told supporters that she had conceded to Harriet Hageman.
After his second impeachment, former President Donald Trump made it his mission to defeat Rep. Liz Cheney, his chief Republican rival. On Tuesday, he succeeded.
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., has introduced new legislation aimed at federally protecting abortion access after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The Reproductive Freedom For All Act has some bipartisan support.
Sen. Tim Kaine discusses his effort to put federal abortion protections in federal law.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin told Nebraska Republicans his victory last year in what he described as a “dark blue” state was the beginning of a “red wave” that he suspects will sweep across the U.S.
The Wisconsin law that provides the trafficking defense is perhaps the broadest in the country. It was created by the state legislature in 2008, and can help combat the "Sexual Abuse-to-Prison Pipeline."
Rep. Liz Cheney's first debate with Harriet Hageman took place at Sheridan College.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Friday hailed the U.S. Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade, which returns abortion regulations to the states, and said he plans "to take every action I can to protect life."
Montana has its own state Supreme Court opinion ensuring the access to pre-viability abortions — the 1999 Armstrong ruling.
Montana’s congressional Republicans praised the likely end of abortion rights under the 14th Amendment on Tuesday following a leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion.
As the grizzly population has grown, so too has the political divide in the country and Montana. How will polarization shape the future of grizzlies, a species that can be both revered and divisive?
Gov. Kevin Stitt commuted Jones' sentence to life without the possibility of parole.
In another sentencing on Friday, a Montana man who brought his 10-year-old son to Washington for Donald Trump's "Stop the Steal" rally was given 60 days in prison for joining the mob that stormed the Capitol.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo could be ousted “in a matter of weeks, not months” if a committee charged with investigating the Democratic governor recommends the legal articles of impeachment to the full Assembly, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said Monday.
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What has become increasingly unclear this week is whether Gov. Andrew Cuomo will play any role in what the team eventually gets in a stadium negotiation.
The state Assembly committee in charge of the impeachment investigation of Gov. Andrew Cuomo is wrapping up work that is expected to lead to an impeachment vote by the full Assembly in early September.
Abandoned by even his closest political allies, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Wednesday found himself facing more and more serious legal problems as his once-mighty grip on the state continued to slip.
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said Friday that he expects the bipartisan infrastructure bill to reach the Senate floor on Monday.
The final pieces of the budget, which was due by March 31, are still under negotiation, but officials are banking on legalization of mobile sports betting to be in it to help finance massive spending hike desires.
Heastie, who received his first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine March 6, said he has been experiencing “extremely mild” symptoms.
Assemblyman Charles Lavine said he had served a demand upon the governor that no retaliation take place against people cooperating with an impeachment investigation.