The state’s Department of Environmental Quality would expand permissible uses during emergencies to include “planned outages” by grid operators, presumably for power line upgrades.

Virginia’s recently published enrollment data indicates that state schools will need about $1.2 billion over the next two ...

Dominion Energy looks to build a new route of high-voltage transmission lines. However, the surrounding Loudoun County community has worries.

If we choose growth that keeps people and trees rooted in the same soil, we can ensure every community has both the homes and ...

Sheri Shannon and Kami Blatt - December 16, 2025 . Across Virginia, housing costs are rising faster than paychecks. Too many ...

Kami Blatt is the policy support specialist at Southside ReLeaf, working on equitable environmental justice and ...

Charlie Schmidt, a former American Civil Liberties Union attorney and self-described progressive Democrat, won the Democratic nomination Sunday for the Jan. 6 special election in Virginia’s House ...

The bills are back in town, but if legislators aren’t more aggressive this year, next year they will find themselves further ...

In 2013, Senate Republicans sprung a surprise mid-decade effort to redraw district boundaries in their favor. Democrats ...

The Virginia Department of Transportation stunned Virginia's transportation community by proposing a plan last Tuesday to ...

More special elections are being set in Virginia’s legislature as a growing number of Democratic lawmakers depart the House ...

Virginia Tech’s preliminary report is part of an ongoing study funded by the state to address growing concerns.