Residents are calling for the state to study the possibility of connecting the state via east-west passenger rail service.

The General Assembly agreed on a bipartisan plan earlier this year to deal with federal tax law changes.

The boxes, a relatively new addition that relies on infrared and ultraviolet beams to test individual vehicles’ exhaust as they pass, serve a dual purpose: if a car passes the sniff test, it can count as the required emissions inspection.

New regulations under review distinguish surgical and medication-only abortions for the first time, exempting providers of medication-only abortions from some requirements imposed under legislation signed in 2011.

After the morning bell rang on the first day of school at Fox Elementary in Richmond and the children had filed into their classrooms, four people remained outside the school.

"A lot of folks are good with diversity in principle, or maybe they’re good with a little diversity," Kamras said. "But in reality, when it hits a certain threshold, things suddenly change."

Two renewable energy providers whose attempts to sign up Dominion Energy customers were halted by the utility in July won a victory Wednesday when the State Corporation Commission ordered the company to begin processing the enrollments immediately.

In August 1619, enslaved Africans first arrived in Virginia. During the Civil War in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation, which aimed to set millions of slaves free.

Northam, speaking at a presentation to the Joint Money Committee, owns and leases about 50 acres of farm land on the Eastern Shore.

Virginia’s amber waves of grain are short 40,000 acres this year thanks to an unusually wet past year.