The Virginian-Pilot

The state board that oversees police will soon be tasked with creating standards of conduct that all Virginia officers must abide by thanks to legislation passed in Virginia’s special session.

Conservationists are pushing legislation this year to ban the intentional release of even one balloon in Virginia.

All but the northern part of Virginia is having an upward trajectory with coronavirus infeections, based on data collected by the Virginia Department of Health.

Virginia officials have OK’d at least 1,172 prisoners for early release under a plan the governor announced at the outset of the pandemic to help curb spread of the coronavirus.

A federal judge in Richmond on Wednesday granted a request to extend voter registration in Virginia.

On the final day to register to vote in Virginia for the November election, the state’s voter registration database went down for several hours.

The pandemic might be losing some steam, with four straight weeks of a statewide spreading rate that indicates each infected person is passing the coronavirus to fewer than one other person.

A nearly 14-acre stretch of vacant land in Portsmouth could get three restaurants if the City Council approves a developer’s plans.

The operator of Waterside District has been secretly backing a group urging citizens to vote down a planned casino elsewhere on the downtown waterfront.

No cities in Hampton Roads have banned trick-or-treating this year, but the annual tradition will definitely look differently Oct. 31.