University of Virginia student Emilia Couture had no idea what the Equal Rights Amendment was before her sister told her about the amendment a few years back.
A Hopewell man is giving away guns to send a loud message to lawmakers. 43 year old Brandon Howard is a Second Amendment supporter who is on a mission to fight for gun rights, no matter the cost.
Industrial hemp is poised to be a fast growing sector of agriculture in Virginia. Hemp advocacy group Vote Hemp estimates 2017 retail sales of hemp products neared $820 million nationally and will continue to grow.
Virginia residents with Medicaid will not be required to work in order to keep their policies since Gov. Ralph Northam halted the work requirements he previously agreed to implement nearly two years ago as a bipartisan agreement.
Richmond Councilman Mike Jones and Richmond NAACP President J.J. Minor are planning to introduce the details of a resolution asking the General Assembly to give the city permission to make decisions on relocating Confederate memorials, during a press conference at Richmond City Hall, Monday morning.
Black women in Virginia are three times more likely to die after giving birth than white women, a trend Gov. Ralph Northam has said he wants to reverse by 2025.
On Monday night, gun activists in Louisa County celebrated after the board of supervisors voted to approve a resolution to make the county a Second Amendment sanctuary.
On this day in history December 2nd 1955, a black man named Robert Leon Bacon wrote to the Governor of Virginia describing the hardships of living under segregation.
The president marked Nov. 26, 1789, by attending church services at St. Paul’s Chapel in New York City and by donating beer and food to imprisoned debtors in the big apple.
A new state report says legalizing casinos in Virginia would provide a modest economic boost in state tax revenues and to communities where casinos are located
Washington Post journalist, former columnist, and author Bob Levey said that attacks on the press - such as the U.S. president calling the media “the enemy of the people” and accusing them of being “fake and corrupt” - is nothing new.
Another rift is developing between newly re-elected Republican State Senator Amanda Chase (R-Midlothian) and other Republicans. Chase is announcing she will not caucus with other Republicans for the 2020 General Assembly session.
A second senior employee in the regional VA office that covers Virginia and North Carolina has come forward with public allegations of retaliation and abuse at the hands of a senior VA official.
The Democratic presidential primary debate on Wednesday will feature Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren standing center stage, flanked by Bernie Sanders and a rising Pete Buttigieg — and will be missing a couple of familiar faces.
With support from former Vice President Al Gore and other prominent Virginia residents, Pete Buttigieg has raised more money in individual donations from the commonwealth than any other candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
Two reports involving guns were released in the past week – one on possible firearms legislation in Richmond, the other studying the horror of the massacre at the Virginia Beach municipal complex this spring.
Virginia Republicans in the House of Delegates have picked a new leadership team as they are set to be the minority party in the first time in two decades
Congresswoman Abigial Spanberger talked with voters today during a town hall meeting at J.R. Tucker High School in Henrico with much of the discussion centered around this week’s impeachment inquiry hearings of the president.
While Hashmi is not from one of the seven countries affected by President Donald Trump’s 2017 executive order that became known as a Muslim travel ban, she was concerned it was an indicator that Muslims were not welcome in the U.S.
After Democrats seized control of the General Assembly on Election Day and proceeded to vote on key leadership positions, Republicans began meeting behind closed doors and mulling over who will steer their party forward.
Activists are accusing the development team behind a major arena proposal of paying people who held signs supporting the controversial $1.5 billion plan at Richmond City Council meeting.
Equality Virginia -- an advocacy organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Virginians -- hosted the event to facilitate transgender visibility and inspire community building by inviting questions from the audience.
The richest 1% of Americans control more wealth than the entire middle class combined, according to the Brookings Institution - a striking sign of income inequality that has accelerated since the Great Recession.
Two career diplomats testified before a House committee and television cameras in the first day of open hearings into the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.
The Richmond City Council unanimously passed an ordinance requiring any person who loses a gun or has a firearm stolen in the City of Richmond to report is as stolen to Richmond police.
With a crowd of protesters just outside the building, the justices of the nation’s highest court heard arguments Tuesday that may determine the fate of a popular program that protected young immigrants from deportation.
Virginia Republicans promised a “thoughtful and deliberative study” of gun legislation when they abruptly adjourned a special legislative session called by Gov. Ralph Northam following a May mass shooting in Virginia Beach.
Virginia Democrats seized control of the General Assembly for the first time in decades last week, and that means Confederate statues could soon be coming down in a state that's full of them
Can President Donald Trump put an end to legal protections for a group of undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States years ago as children?
Virginia's House of Delegates is poised to have the first female speaker in its 400-year history, with the chamber's Democrats choosing a veteran legislator for the post
A federal appeals court in Virginia has denied a petition from InfoWars and other far-right defendants and is allowing a defamation lawsuit against them to continue
At least four Democrats – including two members of the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus – have said they’re in the running to become the next speaker of the House of Delegates, setting up a debate among the newly empowered majority over who should lead their diverse caucus.
Joe Morrissey, a controversial figure in Virginia politics, appears poised to return to the legislature after defeating independent candidate Waylin Ross in Senate District 16 with nearly two-thirds of the vote.
