Karri Peifer

In three of Richmond's last four mayoral elections, more than 60% of voters cast their ballot for someone other than the winning candidate.

🚨 Chesterfield''s new police chief is Lt. Col. Frank Carpenter, a 25-year department veteran and the county's first Black police chief. (Times-Dispatch)

The Fan is flush with new barbecue after two newbies, Bar-Q and Brickwood Barbecue, opened in recent weeks just a few blocks apart.

A shortage of affordable homes to buy or rent in the U.S. keeps home prices high — and high housing costs mean less money to spend on other things.

🧢 Actor Matthew McConaughey's selfie tribute to the Washington Commanders while wearing a burgundy-and-gold hat reading "Hail" sent hat sales soaring over 1,000%. (Axios)

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine is facing a challenge from retired Navy Captain Hung Cao in Virginia's only statewide race on the ballot this year.

Here are some of the rules about phones, campaigning and more in and around polling places.

An "I Voted" sticker is your ticket to freebies and deals this Election Day.

Election Day is finally here, but if 2020 is any indication, we won't know the results of the biggest ones we're watching — the presidential and Richmond mayoral races — on Election Day.

🚭 Alexandria schools, and other districts around D.C., are installing vape detectors on campus to try to curb limit student use. (Axios D.C.)