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Del. Lamont Bagby won the Democratic nomination Sunday night in a firehouse primary leading up to next month’s special election for Virginia’s 9th Senate District seat.

Following Jennifer McClellan’s win for the 4th District U.S. House seat, the 9th Senate District in Virginia will soon be vacant.

The House and Senate killed legislation that would have codified a Virginia Supreme Court decision allowing law enforcement agencies to use and store data from license plate readers.

Democrats and Republicans will hold events this weekend to pick candidates to fill Jennifer McClellan's seat.

The last time Richmond had a curfew was during the protests and riots that followed George Floyd’s death.

Jennifer McClellan, currently a state senator, will fill the seat held by the late Donald McEachin, who died in November.

It’s a final push for votes, in a February special election, to elect the next lawmaker in Virginia’s 4th Congressional District.

State lawmakers are scheduled to adjourn on Saturday, but they still have plenty of work ahead, including action on amendments to the state budget.

Richmond could now have another casino referendum on the ballot

Same-sex marriage has been recognized in Virginia for years, and the ban voters approved in 2006 doesn’t currently carry any legal weight.

A Democratic-led Senate committee on Thursday killed multiple bills from House Republicans that aimed to increase parental oversight in public schools.

Legislators from Virginia’s Eastern Shore say they can make a compelling case to name the Chincoteague Pony the Official Pony of the Commonwealth.

Virginia drivers may soon be required to have car insurance to drive in the commonwealth after bipartisan support sent legislation to the governor for approval.

A proposal to put menstrual data stored on period-tracking apps beyond the reach of Virginia authorities failed in the state House of Delegates Monday after Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration expressed opposition to the idea for the first time.

Legislation is moving forward to prevent a tragedy like the November shooting at the University of Virginia from happening ever again.

Outside the statehouse Tuesday, Virginia’s First Lady stepped out of the shadows for a political mission that’s turned personal.

Senators in the General Assembly are coming together to create legislation that would require mental health courses in all of Virginia’s public schools.

A Republican-led committee in the House of Delegates voted Monday to reject two prison reform bills, one that would have created an independent ombudsman office to provide extra oversight and another that would have given inmates access to free phone calls and emails.

The Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia Senate approved competing budget plans Thursday, but one area where there appears to be broad bipartisan support is improving Virginia’s behavioral health system.

All four bills put forward by Republicans this year to let parents use state education funding to cover the costs of educational opportunities outside the public school system failed to make it through this year’s General Assembly.

Crossover Day marks the time when lawmakers wrap up work on their own legislation.

A Senate bill would make it a felony to buy, sell or offer for a sale a catalytic converter that is separated from a vehicle, unless certain conditions are met.

Even though the Petersburg bill was defeated, a similar bill is still alive in the House.

The telephone poll was conducted January 18-21 with 625 random registered Virginia voters.

Over 5,000 people hit the pavement to “March for Life” and rally against abortion at the Virginia State Capitol Wednesday.

In a nod to the political reality that the Virginia General Assembly is unlikely to legalize retail sales of marijuana this session, a Republican lawmaker encouraged his colleagues to just ask the state’s Cannabis Control Authority to start drawing up rules for a retail marketplace that legislators could look at next year.

Even if the bills pass the Democratic Senate, they appear doomed to failure based on recent no votes in Republican-controlled committees in the House of Delegates.

The agency struggled to keep up with legitimate claims at the start of the coronavirus pandemic and was swamped with fraudulent ones.

A new poll shows that Governor Glenn Youngkin has a 50% approval rate, but 59% of Virginians do not want him to run for president.

The current law lists 16 categories of workers not subject to the state increases, including those under the age of 16 and those younger than 18 who are enrolled in school full-time while working less than 20 hours per week.