Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, who leaves office in January, today encouraged people with nonviolent felony convictions who have paid their debt to society to...

High levels of carbon monoxide have forced two evacuations of a building housing the Staunton Police Department and City Hall in the past week.

For the last two Wednesday-to-Sunday travel periods surrounding Thanksgiving, there were 31 fatalities on the road. Thirty-nine percent weren’t wearing...

Virginia is buying back 359 commercial crab licenses to ease pressure on the Chesapeake Bay’s blue crab population.

A Vermont judge has granted sole custody of a girl to her nonbiological mother in a custody dispute involving a former lesbian couple. Family Court Judge...

A little rain is in the Thanksgiving holiday forecast, but it shouldn’t be enough to interfere with travel plans, officials said yesterday. Brief...

On Saturday, the day the U.S. Senate voted to move health-care legislation to the floor, Sen. Jim Webb’s office received 1,200 calls at the front...

The results stayed the same, but the turnout grew after a certification of the Nov. 3 elections by the State Board of Elections yesterday. A total of 2,168,574...

Facing a projected budget gap of as much as $3.5 billion, there is no doubt that the two-year spending plan being prepared by Gov. Timothy M. Kaine will...

The results stayed the same but the turnout grew after a certification of the Nov. 3 elections by the State Board of Elections yesterday. A total of 2,168,574...

The state of working Virginia is not good, according to a report released today by the Commonwealth Institute of Fiscal Analysis. Virginia has lost more...

The Governor’s Advisory Council on Revenue Estimates convened this morning with a cautionary tone by Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, who said there are still...

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine is scheduled to meet privately this afternoon with Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell at the Patrick Henry Building, according to senior staff...

State and federal authorities will investigate the death of a high school freshman who was killed in a wood chipper accident.

A logger is dead after he was hit by a falling tree while trimming another tree’s branches in the Hardy area of Franklin County.

Funeral services are scheduled at Arlington National Cemetery for a military physician assistant killed in the shooting at Fort Hood, Texas.

The search for a Canadian sailor who never made it to Bermuda was suspended last night.

ROANOKE—In the brisk early-morning air, a few shouts among a crowd of more than 1,000 grew to an echoing cheer as a blue tour bus rolled into the...

CHARLOTTESVILLE—The University of Virginia Medical Center is adding non-competition clauses to the employment agreements of its 800 clinical faculty...

LEXINGTON—Virginia Military Institute is defending itself against a lengthy investigation into accusations that the school’s policies are sexist...

ROANOKE—In the brisk early-morning air, a few shouts among a crowd of more than 1,000 grew to an echoing cheer as a blue tour bus rolled into the...

LEXINGTON—Virginia Military Institute is defending itself against a lengthy investigation into accusations that the school’s policies are sexist...

Three Virginians were named Rhodes Scholars today, representing the College of William and Mary, the University of Virginia and Auburn Unviersity.

A Northern Virginia driver is holding a $1,000 ticket after a recent crackdown on those who drive illegally in car pool lanes.

Fairfax County police and fire officials are investigating the death of a person found in a burning car in the Annandale area.

Public schools may not look the same next fall, two months after Virginia begins a new budget year. Class sizes could grow as large as state law allows....

BRISTOL—Police say a married couple in Southwest Virginia has been found dead in an apparent murder-suicide. Washington County authorities said deputies...

A 20-year-old Seventh-day Adventist student missionary from Virginia was found slain on the Pacific island of Yap after going jogging near the school where...

Both of Virginia’s U.S. senators say they will vote to allow debate on the Senate version of health-care overhaul legislation, but neither has committed...

A Charlottesville police officer whose unmarked vehicle hit another car as he responded to a bank robbery faces a traffic charge.