Event planning conversations were met with pushback this week because the festival is set to take place the same weekend as Juneteenth.

Virginia was ranked 16th on U.S. News & World Report's list for the 2025 best states in the country. Virginia’s ranking this year dropped from 2024, when it was ranked the 13th best state.

Democrat Abigail Spanberger is currently in the lead over Republican Winsome Earle-Sears in the gubernatorial election, according to a Roanoke College poll.

Police on Wednesday named another man that has been charged in what authorities said was a robbery and shooting on April 14. On that day, police responded to three separate shootings in about a

School boards hold “sovereign immunity” from litigation — even from allegations they were “grossly negligent” in their actions, as was seen in a

Republicans in the U.S. House of Delegates advanced a mega bundle of bills designed to shave billions from the federal budget, which Democrats and advocates have said will take resources from the nation’s most vulnerable citizens and hinder social safety nets.

WASHINGTON — The Social Security Administration recently announced the most popular baby names in Virginia for 2024, with Liam and Charlotte topping the list. The top five boys’ and girls’ names for 2024 in Virginia were, for boys: Liam, Noah, James, William and Oliver. For girls: Charlotte, Olivia, Sophia, Emma and Amelia.

Police close South Lynnhaven Road in Virginia Beach after a two-vehicle crash injures one person critically. VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — One person was seriously injured in a Virginia Beach crash on Saturday afternoon that has closed a portion of South Lynnhaven Road.

A second case of measles has been confirmed in Virginia this year, health officials said on Friday. The Virginia Department of Health said it was a teenager from the northwest region of the state who had recently traveled outside the U.S.

Two postal employees, Darnelle Concepcion and Quasheda Jones, pleaded guilty to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of checks from the mail, along with a Norfolk man named Devon Drumgoole.

Two Virginia Republicans in congressional seats Democrats are targeting joined their GOP colleagues in voting for President Donald Trump's big domestic policy package, saying it will protect Medicaid for the most vulnerable while providing tax relief.