More than 60 faith leaders from across Virginia have joined environmental groups in urging Governor Timothy Kaine to oppose a coal-fired power plant that Dominion Virginia Power wants to build in Wise County.

Senate negotiators believe there is a chance that conferees can reach agreement today on the state’s two-year budget. But their counterparts in the House of Delegates are not as confident.

Washington & Lee University, is announcing plans to have students spend their final year - a time for breezy classes and little hard work at many schools - in “practicum” courses, where they will imitate real-world lawyering every step of the way.

A $2.2 billion “clean” coal-fired power plant proposed for West Virginia won’t initially include controls to capture and pump greenhouse gases underground.

According to AAA Mid-Atlantic, the cost for a gallon of regular unleaded gas averages $3.10 in the Roanoke region.  That’s a drop of three cents from Sunday’s price of $3.13, which tied the all-time record

Virginia state lawmakers have passed a law that would require any adult who French kisses a child younger than 13 to register as a sex offender.

They include antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones, as well as over-the-counter pain medicines

Alcohol, drug abuse stretches Va. foster system resources

Virginia teen, 2 others, held in shooting of pedestrian

A sailor on the Norfolk-based carrier USS
Theodore Roosevelt has died after sustaining a severe head injury
when the ship hit heavy seas off the Florida coast.

Lead foot driver’s beware! State police are out in full force through tomorrow.

The new legislative substitute to Senate Bill 1 and House Bill 1243—the product of a conference committee of three senators and three delegates—is expected to be approved today in both houses.

The Virginia National Guard will bid farewell Tuesday to the 170 soldiers of its 1710th Transportation Company, which is being called up for duty in Iraq.

The General Assembly session will be extended at least a day because of a budget impasse, House majority leader Morgan Griffith says,

Stephen Murmer, the “pioneer of butt painting” according to Ripley’s Believe It or Not, will have a $65,000 cushion for being fired as a Chesterfield County art teacher.

Author says that for boomers, hospice and palliative care are excellent end-of-life choices

Senate Democrats have proposed statewide tax increases on wholesale gasoline and vehicle purchases to cover road maintenance, along with additional tax increases in northern Virginia and Hampton Roads for roads projects

Governor Tim Kaine introduced the bill allowing extended voting hours after a winter storm snarled traffic in northern Virginia, preventing perhaps thousands of voters from casting votes in last month’s presidential primary.

While more people are visiting national parks nationwide, fewer people are coming to the Blue Ridge Parkway.

House and Senate budget negotiators hurled insults at each other yesterday but continued to talk, hoping to forestall an extended General Assembly session

Because of tumbling state revenues, the Virginia Department of Transportation will have to cut $1.1 billion from its six-year highway and transit program

The legislation would have allowed the death penalty for any accomplice who shared the primary killer’s intent to kill.

James E. Carr, 20, has admitted to shooting James W. Woolfolk III early Thurday in a house on Joplin Avenue near Jefferson Davis Highway, in South Richmond.

The 12 negotiators were expected to meet again Friday afternoon.

Tazewell County woman is suing the county, school officials and several school employees for $25 million in the death of her son, Kevin Stallard II.

In Dendron, no one remembered to run for Town Council or mayor this year.

Winchester police said the unidentified 16-year-old freshman - carrying two pellet guns in a bag - was arrested near the school Thursday

Judge has ruled that the owner of a Staunton adult video store and one of his employees, both charged with selling obscene material, will go to trial June 17.

A $25 million lawsuit alleges a Richlands High School freshman with a heart condition died in September, after a gym teacher forced him to do wind sprints in 90-degree heat.

A judge has ruled that the owner of a Staunton adult video store and one of his employees, both charged with selling obscene material, will go to trial June 17.