The General Assembly last night adopted a $77 billion state budget that raises state workers’ salaries and teacher pay and provides a significant boost in funding for mental health

Both of Virginia’s U.S. Senators are applauding President Bush’s nomination of Virginia Supreme Court Justice G. Steven Agee to the Richmond-based federal appeals court.

The House and Senate convened late in the afternoon and spent more than two hours debating transportation legislation that will await a special session.  The two-year budget, which is the General Assembly’s foremost duty, was nowhere near a vote by 7:00 p.m.

Engineering programs restart as more reactors are planned

Almost two weeks ago, Kaine had dinner in New York with Eliot and Silda Spitzer and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and his wife, Meryl Justin

The threat sent the school into lockdown for about two hours, and then school officials sent students home early because of frayed nerves.

Handshake deal on budget sets up final vote, Thursday adjournment

Va. man charged with threatening U. of Illinois student, others

The university had thousands come together in a giant #100 for an aerial picture

The two sides ended days of haggling over differing public safety priorities, much of it over funding to crack down on Internet sexual predators.

Inside a U.S. Army airplane cruising at 13,500 feet over Charlottesville, Gertrude Fraser gazed out at the landscape below and weighed her options: To jump or not to jump?

Several hang-ups continued over public safety, including whether to preserve about $7 million in state funding for 14 drug courts

Don’t toss out the school census form that shows up in your mailbox this month, even though your children may not be in public school.

Visitor facilities along the Blue Ridge Parkway will start opening for the season next month, Superintendent Phil Francis announced yesterday

A Virginia judge is in stable condition today in a Richmond hospital after suffering multiple fractures in a motorcycle collision with a car in King William County.

Barry Ocamaca? Translation: Democratic contender Barack Obama.

Virginia Beach bar reaches agreement over hair policy

The House and Senate agreed Tuesday to stretch their already extended session until Thursday while a new dispute over public safety issues cast doubt on whether a budget package would be ready by then.

Eight people are charged with conspiring to obtain bogus Ohio identification cards for illegal aliens in Virginia and elsewhere

According to the Virginia Film Office, more than 3,400 Virginians served as crew members and extras.  The production marked the first time the foundation that runs Colonial Williamsburg allowed a film production to shoot in the interiors of the historic structures.

Some of Gov. Kaine’s proposals survived the negotiations like mental health reform, expansion of pre-K, reforms to foster care, although most at less than what he wanted. But the budget left one thing completely unanswered: our roads.

Two of Virginia’s top state Republican figures formally back Jim Gilmore to succeed retiring U.S. Senator John Warner (R).

A jury in Virginia Beach that convicted a Caroline County woman of killing her state trooper husband has recommended life in prison as her punishment.

A project at the University of Virginia called The Papers of George Washington has released the 57th volume of its in-depth study of Washington’s life.

Steve Barber knew his fictional essay about a suicidal student bent on murder would generate quite a buzz within his creative-writing class at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise.
It was the expulsion from school and the weekend spent locked up in a mental health ward for observation that caught the 23-year-old freshman and former U.S. Navy sailor off guard.

Martinsville remained the survey area with the highest unemployment, at 10.5 percent

The indictment in Alexandria federal court says one of Teach Me to Trade’s supposed stock trading experts was actually recruited from a nail salon.

Virginia gets grant for mine safety training

Nation, Va. localities reach record gas prices

House and Senate negotiators reached tentative agreement yesterday on the outlines of a $77 billion state budget that would authorize pay increases for public employees, including schoolteachers, and encourage colleges to limit tuition increases