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

In 2017, Virginia passed a law allowing some localities to launch needle exchange programs, an attempt to prevent the spread of infectious diseases like hepatitis C and HIV.

Six police officers were shot in Philadelphia on Wednesday. During the hours-long standoff, Virginia Del. Mark Levine, D-Alexandria, took to Facebook to launch a fundraiser.

Aubrey Layne, Virginia’s secretary of finance, but a recession in the next 12 to 18 months is “more likely than not.”

Virginia’s psychiatric hospitals are dangerously full.

Earlier this week the “30-50 feral hogs” meme swarmed the internet, an unexpected by-product of the nationwide gun debate.

The state forensic science lab plans to distribute 15,000 field tests to police departments around Virginia that will help officers distinguish between hemp and marijuana plants, which can appear identical but carry very different legal implications.

All of the animals died between late summer and fall of 2017 in Albemarle County.

Experts are encouraged by the growth, especially after the record-breaking rainfall in the Chesapeake region last summer.

The program puts community college students through general education classes that will be accepted at almost every public university or college.