Legislation to be considered this session include bills cracking down on ghost guns, enhancing background checks and keeping ...

It's all the buzz in Richmond — a bill introduced by state Republican Senator Mark Peake of Lynchburg would designate the brown-belted bumble bee as the official native state pollinator.

Virginia has five historically Black colleges and universities. Three are private and two public. Now, they have new ...

Environmental issues were one of the hottest topics on the campaign trail last year. Now, the winners of that election are hoping to put those words to action.

Courthouses across Virginia have been the scene of arrests made by federal immigration officials. But members of the Virginia ...

Jay Jones was sworn in as the first African American Attorney General of Virginia. Ghazala Hashmi was sworn in as Lieutenant ...

Members of the Virginia state Senate are considering a bill that would prevent abortion rights opponents from blocking access ...

Democrats who run the House and Senate also passed a series of amendments protecting abortion rights, protecting gay marriage ...

Newly inaugurated Governor Abigail Spanberger spoke to a joint assembly of the House and Senate Monday afternoon.

Men, women, and children have been killed by fentanyl. These are the parents they leave behind.

John L. Allen Jr., the fastidious American journalist who demystified Vatican affairs for English speakers for decades, died ...

"To love one's neighbor -- whom Jesus identifies as anyone who has need of us -- is within everyone's reach," he wrote in his message for the 34th World Day of the Sick, observed by the church Feb. 11 ...