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Each year, the state adjusts the tax code to reflect changes in federal law. But this year the routine process has been tangled up in a debate on tax policy. If lawmakers don’t act immediately it could impact your return. Mallory Noe-Payne has more from the capitol.

Virginia teachers turned out in the thousands Monday to march on the state capitol – demanding higher pay and increases in school funding. Mallory Noe-Payne was there and has this report.

  The death of a firefighter on the side of an interstate is prompting action in Richmond, where lawmakers are considering legislation to toughen the penalties on drivers who don’t move over when approaching emergency vehicles. Melanie Clark, the widow of that firefighter, is promoting the bill. Monday morning, she asked lawmakers to take action […]

There’s a new idea for using trains to reduce congestion on Interstate 81. And members of Norfolk’s school board want to know who’s been criticizing them using a government Twitter account. Those have been among the most read stories over the past week at the Virginia Public Access Project’s Va. News link. More now from […]

Hundreds, maybe thousands, of teachers are expected to show up in Richmond Monday to show support for public education. Mallory Noe-Payne has details on the march and rally.  

Lawmakers in Richmond are considering a proposal that would crack down on the kind of paramilitary groups that marched on Charlottesville. Michael Pope reports.

Virginia’s governor and a bipartisan group of lawmakers are announcing plans to require the state’s largest electric utility to excavate and clean up unlined coal ash pits. Michael Pope has details.

A panel of federal judges has chosen a redistricting map for Virginia’s House of Delegates that could shift some districts toward Democrats and help the party regain control in this year’s election. Mallory Noe-Payne has details.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are in agreement about getting rid of old Jim Crow language in the code. But Republicans have conditions. Michael Pope reports.

It’s been ten years since Maryland and Virginia were ordered to restore oyster populations to tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay by 2025. To meet that goal scientists have banked on building oyster sanctuaries. But reviving a species decimated by disease, over-harvesting and pollution hasn’t proved easy. Maryland, Virginia and federal recently scientists met at the […]