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.

A former financial analyst for the Patent and Trademark Office has been sentenced to a year and a half in prison for stealing more than $500,000 from a...

The group that will manage Fort Monroe after the Army leaves wants sections of the post to be designated as a unit of the National Park Service.

The state is investigating a gasoline leak that polluted a small stream in Roanoke County.

More than 100 people gathered outside the downtown Richmond offices of Sens. Jim Webb and Mark R. Warner today to protest the proposed health care plans...

Sen. Mark Warner said he wants to see more cost containment in the Senate’s health care bill before he can support it. The Senate version is better...

An assistant biology professor at Virginia Highlands Community College has been named Virginia Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the...

Local governments aren’t likely to escape the pain when the General Assembly attempts to eliminate an estimated $3.5 billion hole in the next two-year...

A Virginia National Guard soldier wounded in an accidental blast at Fort Pickett is in stable condition at VCU Medical Center and is expected to make a...

Virginia University of Lynchburg launched the biggest fundraising effort in its history this week to support ongoing restoration of its campus. VUL, a...

Morgan Dana Harrington’s parents this week visited the Copeley Road bridge where she was last seen to leave mementos and posters at a small, makeshift...

The U.S. Coast Guard says aircraft crews are searching for a Canadian boater who is overdue for arrival in Bermuda.

State health officials say they’ve allocated a total of 1.2 million doses of the H1N1 vaccine to Virginia sites in their overall campaign to vaccinate...

Virginia lawmakers learned today that they have a $3.5 billion hole to fill in the next two-year budget as well an estimated $209 million shortfall in...

The American sea captain who was held by pirates off of Africa and the crew of a Navy ship involved his rescue are reuniting in Virginia.

In a meeting yesterday with the Richmond Times-Dispatch’s editorial board, Kaine voiced concerns that lawmakers confronted with the tough budget...

The cost of retiree health care is turning into a hot-button issue for state legislators and local officials, who will learn today how much more local...

A female soldier was flown to VCU Medical Center and 13 other soldiers were taken to hospitals after an explosion last night at Fort Pickett, officials...

Virginia and its localities should stop building more prisons and jails because a decade-long building program has led to undercrowding, a state budget...

Lowand middle-income families pay a disproportionate share of taxes in Virginia, a study by a tax policy institute concluded yesterday. The Institute on...

The Virginia Department of Health is closing Chesapeake Bay tributaries, including all of them in Hampton Roads, to shellfish harvesting because of last...

A hunter faces manslaughter and other charges after authorities say he fired at Ferrum College students he mistook for a deer, leaving one dead and another...

A federal grand jury has subpoenaed from the Virginia House of Delegates documents related to former Del. Phillip A. Hamilton’s job at Old Dominion...

Virginia has more than enough jail and prison space and can stop its prison building binge, the House Appropriations Committee was told today. Paul.Van...

Virginia health officials are advising against consuming walleye fish caught in Lake Gaston because of mercury contamination. Recent fish-tissue sample...

Police say the drowning of a Halifax County toddler in a pond near his home appears to be an accident.

A 570-foot barge that went aground in the surf off Virginia Beach is free.

A deer hunter faces manslaughter and other charges in connection with the fatal shooting of a Ferrum College student and the wounding of another.