The last U.S. Navy cruiser based in Japan will soon depart for the United States, closing out a decadelong deployment with the U.S. 7th Fleet. The guided-missile cruiser USS Robert Smalls, formerly ...
Democrats managed to increase their majority in the Virginia House of Delegates, moving from 51 to 64 seats (with one race still undecided as of 11 p.m.) as voters turned out Tuesday in a pivotal ...
Virginia lawmakers have approved legislation to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2028, setting the stage for the first increase of its kind in years. The vote marks a major shift in ...
Following the passage Monday of a $15 hourly minimum wage bill, legislation creating a state family and medical leave insurance program and a measure requiring employers to provide paid sick leave are ...
WASHINGTON — Veterans and their advocates slammed a new rule by the Department of Veterans Affairs for determining disability compensation, predicting it will lower their payments for service-related ...
RICHMOND, Va. — Thousands of Virginians received higher January energy bills following an unusually cold start to the year, prompting questions about what Governor Abigail Spanberger is doing to ...
The town council meeting had reached the point on the agenda where the public could speak on any topic, and emotions, to put it mildly, were a tad raw. “It’s not too late to resign!” a woman shouted ...
The new governor of Virginia, who ran as a centrist Democrat and a former intelligence officer, says the attacks are a sign of her success. Abigail Spanberger, governor of Virginia, in her office in ...
WASHINGTON, Feb 15 (Reuters) - The Democratic Party is willing to spend tens of millions on a Virginia redistricting effort that could gain the party four more seats in the U.S. House of ...
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has finalized a new rule that it says is designed to streamline certain decisions around veteran survivors’ benefit claims—a move the agency says will result in ...
Democratic lawmakers say President Donald Trump’s redistricting gambit is backfiring as Virginia’s Democratic-controlled Senate advanced new congressional maps that could chip away at the House GOP's ...