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Early voting begins in Virginia, as Trump mail-ballot restrictions remain blocked

September 19, 2026

Virginia confronts $1.7 billion shortfall in highway maintenance funding

September 19, 2026

Fed raises interest rates for first time in 3 years, battling persistent inflation

September 18, 2026

Trump admin aims to shift homelessness grants toward addiction treatment, enforcement

September 18, 2026

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A group of college graduates. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Virginia joins initiative to create three-year bachelor’s degree model

June 26, 2026

Higher education leaders in Virginia and Ohio announced Thursday that they will join forces to create a model for three-year...

An election worker processes mail-in ballots for the California state primary election at the Los Angeles County Ballot Processing Center on June 05, 2026, in City of Industry, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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Trump order limiting voting by mail halted by federal court

June 26, 2026

A federal judge on Thursday blocked major portions of President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting voting by mail, finding he...

Casey Oakley, who needed an abortion after an unsuccessful IVF embryo transfer. She and her husband have two biological children and she has been a surrogate mom for two families. The couple has also foster parented four girls. (Photo courtesy Casey Oakey)

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More than abortion: What Va. patients and providers want you to know about reproductive health laws

Editor’s note: This story mentions pregnancy loss. Miscarriages were common for Albemarle County resident Casey Oakley during her in vitro...

Supporters of President Donald Trump gather outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, before a mob breached the building during the certification of the 2020 presidential election results. Critics of a proposed settlement tied to Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS have raised concerns that a planned “Anti-Weaponization” fund could ultimately benefit Jan. 6 defendants. (Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

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Virginia joins challenge to Trump’s controversial IRS settlement

Virginia Attorney Jay Jones joined a coalition of 22 Democratic attorneys general Wednesday urging a federal judge in Florida to...

Tom Dunlap, a Riverkeeper with the James River Association, looks over Swift Creek where toxic leachate from the Shoosmith Landfill is leaking in June 2026. (Photo by Shannon Heckt/Virginia Mercury)

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Va. legislature grants emergency funds to help close leaking, bankrupt landfill in Chesterfield

The Virginia General Assembly allocated $10.6 million in the two-year budget lawmakers passed this week for the Department of Environmental...

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After criticism, Virginia proposes two-year delay in raising school standards

The Virginia Board of Education may delay the full implementation of the state’s plan to raise academic benchmarks for reading...

Map of potential lease site locations for offshore mineral mining. (Image by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management)

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Federal government scouts for interest in mineral mining off Virginia shores

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has pitched the possibility of leasing areas of the outer continental shelf off Virginia’s...

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Spanberger unveils reformed practices for Va. prisons and council on corrections

June 24, 2026

A new council convened by Gov. Abigail Spanberger aims to help solve longstanding issues in Virginia’s prisons that residents and...

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Trump’s policies won’t bring back coal, but they are driving up Virginians’ energy costs

June 24, 2026

If virtue signaling has a Trump-era corollary, we might call it vice signaling. That’s what President Donald Trump’s most recent...

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Miscarriage management remains muddled 4 years after Dobbs