Michael Pope

Debt buyers are about to face new rules about what they need to prove in court.

Construction workers frame a new single-family home Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, in Owensboro, Ky.

Officials at the Virginia Theological Seminary plan to display the letter at Bishop Payne Library in Alexandria.

The new fiscal year starts next month, but Virginia still has no budget. And leaders in the General Assembly are still divided over what to do about a tax break for data centers.

The year was 1870, and Virginia was under military occupation. In order to have members of Congress return to the Capitol, state officials agreed that they would not make up new felonies to disenfranchise Black people.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation's annual Kids Count report has some good news for Virginia, which is one of a handful of states to make the largest improvements in children's health outcomes.

Washington is famous for its revolving door, and more than a dozen former members of the Virginia congressional delegation became lobbyists after leaving office.

Background checks for firearm purchases are more than double what they were at this time last year. This comes as a new ban on the sale of assault-style weapons and large-capacity magazines is set to begin on July the 1st.

The deadline for the House and the Senate and governor to come to some kind of agreement is at the end of this month.

Members of the Virginia General Assembly are back at the Capitol this week to put the final pieces together on a two-year budget. One significant part of that document moves forward with a new marketplace for adult use cannabis.