When Jackson Gunter moved to Highland Park Elementary School, he noticed some areas for improvement in the city park’s playground.

Bills from Sen. Schuyler VanValkenburg, D-Henrico County, and House Majority Leader Charniele Herring, D-Alexandria, don’t require localities to approve utility-scale solar proposals but do ...

The city-run overflow shelter is open overnight, and 24/7 services will continue at the Salvation Army’s main building.

The winter storm last weekend left Virginia covered in ice, snow and political talking points. Virginia’s new Democratic governor, Abigail Spanberger, got her first chance to don an emergency services ...

Laura Vozzella covered the General Assembly for more than a decade before she left The Washington Post. She’ll spend her first post-retirement legislative session working for Sen. Bill Stanley.

The shuttered prison in Augusta County is one of six facilities identified to expand immigration detention and deportation efforts by the federal government.

Highlights include $11 million to improve the Draper Road streetscape, $10 million to renovate existing athletic fields based on public input and $24 million to replace and expand the town’s bus ...

The money is coming from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency and is awarded to the state, which sends it to the locality.

Competition was supposed to lower energy costs. Instead, it has often raised them. This is because deregulation sidelines utility regulators and exposes customers to volatile energy markets that ...

Also: Wilderness Road State Park in Lee County to hold public meeting Feb. 3. Grant awarded for guitar maker in Tazewell County.

Brad Viator, lives in Arlington and is the President of Power for Tomorrow .

Periods of snow from Friday and Saturday are expected to drop 3-6 inches of snow on much of Southwest and Southside Virginia.