Early voting began on Wednesday for two key special elections in Virginia’s General Assembly, with reproductive rights groups urging support for the Democratic nominees. Voters in House District 26 and Senate District 32,

As Rep. Abigail Spanberger prepares to conclude her tenure in Congress, the Virginia Democrat is setting her sights on a new challenge: the 2025 gubernatorial race.

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Voters in Loudoun County are choosing two new members of the General Assembly in the Jan. 7 election They are filling a pair of seats that opened up when state Sen. Suhas Subramanyam (D-Loudoun) won election to Congress on Nov. 5 and a sitting delegate resigned to run for Subramanyam’s seat in Richmond.

Earle-Sears and Spanberger appeared on the same stage for the first time since becoming their parties’ likely nominees for next year’s Virginia governor’s race.

Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears would be the first Black person nominated by the GOP for Virginia governor. Then again, maybe not.

Despite the multiple millions of dollars spent to get out the vote in two Virginia battlegrounds for Congress this year, the biggest turnout came in a part of the state where nobody expected much of a

Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) plans to propose adding language to the state budget that is intended to stamp out “sanctuary cities,” local governments that decline to comply with requests from federal immigration agents.

Come January, the Virginia Democrat will be back on familiar House ground when he’s sworn in to represent the state’s 10th District, which includes the entirety of Loudoun and Fauquier counties and parts of Fairfax, Prince Williams and Rappahanock counties.

Last week, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced $14.4 million in Virginia Land Conservation Foundation funding for 28 projects to conserve 11,220 acres statewide.

In that fourth and final year, Virginia's chief executives learn a consequential lesson: That they're often inconsequential.

Republicans hope to ride the coattails of their 2024 success, and some missteps from their Democratic counterparts, to win key governor's races.