The Virginia state Senate on Tuesday passed a bill that would add a nonvoting staff member to the University of Virginia Board of Visitors for the first time in the board’s history.
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The former Roanoke County supervisor didn’t disappoint during his initial outing on the election-overseeing panel. With drama and detail, Bedrosian outlined a scheme through which (he said) people could get away with voter impersonation fraud.
Leaders of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota say several deaths could have been prevented had it not been for a series of systemic failures during a December snowstorm.
The associate general counsel for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is allowing Cardno Inc. to remain on the project, despite the conflict.
Supporters of abortion rights filed separate lawsuits Wednesday challenging two states' abortion pill restrictions, the opening salvo in what's expected to be a protracted legal battle over access to the medications.
A education-related bill filed by Del. Marie March was also tabled Wednesday.
More than $3 million dollars arrived this week to the Office of Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, the state body tasked with the distribution of settlement money coming from the distributors and architects of the nation’s opioid epidemic.
More than $3 million dollars arrived this week to the Office of Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, the state body tasked with the distribution of settlement money coming from the distributors and architects of the nation’s opioid epidemic.
It would allocate a portion of per-pupil state funding to a savings account for parents to spend on private school tuition or other specified education expenses.
Mac Scothorn and Amy White will serve as chair and vice chair of the Botetourt County Board of Supervisors for 2023.
The Democrat-led panel sends key tax measures back to subcommittee; it advances gun restrictions, including a proposed ban on assault-style weapons.
As we approach February’s Black History Month, cynical politicians are attempting an erasure of the Black narrative in America history.
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It had passed out of the committee last year with the support of 11 of 12 Republican members.
Several years ago, Bedford County’s office of economic development began brainstorming the idea of creating a tourism zone in the county to incentivize the growth of the local tourism industry. On Monday, Pam Bailey, director of economic development in Bedford County, presented an early draft of the results of tourism zone brainstorming.
County leaders are discussing the latest reassessment data.
“It was much worse than any of us had expected,” said lead plaintiff Trevor Chaplick, who alleges decades of systemic violations in Virginia.
The back-and-forth between the board and former Superintendent Mark Miear continues.
Environmentalists and Indigenous people were important to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's election to a third term as Brazil's president. Now, Lula is seeking to fulfill campaign pledges to expand protected territories in the Amazon and halt a surge in illegal deforestation.
TUESDAY, Jan. 24, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday asked its vaccine advisory panel to weigh a proposal to turn COVID-19 vaccines into an annual shot for most Americans.
An issue of late filings of one candidate with the city registrar remains unsettled.
County officials have yet to decide how to handle a large increase in its 2023 real estate value.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimated that more than 1.5 million Americans would save $761 million for members of both Part D and Part B plans, or $501 a year per person.
About 50 people attended a morning rally and news conference.
Lessons learned from the debt ceiling standoff more than a decade ago are rippling through Washington, as the White House and Congress brace for another fiscal showdown — one that appears headed toward a very similar outcome. Neither Republicans nor Democrats are willing to budge.