Updated: 6:45 PM The Democractic primary in Virginia faces different challenges than the one for Republicans.

Updated: 6:02 PM A Democrat in the Valley said members of her party think that the candidates on the Virginia Republican ticket are too extreme and some of the most extreme the party has put forward.

Posted: 1:00 PM The Republican candidates for state office stopped at Shenandoah Valley Regional airport on Monday morning. It was their first visit to the Valley since being nominated at the convention in Richmond.

Posted: 12:43 PM Virginia Democrats are framing the new statewide ticket the Republican Right nominated Saturday as a referendum on the GOP's surprise lieutenant governor nominee, firebrand Chesapeake minister E.W. Jackson, and his statements demeaning gays and equating Planned Parenthood with the Ku Klux Klan.

Posted: 3:30 PM Virginia's Republican Party, now under tea party control, will gavel its convention to order Friday and is preparing to formalize Ken Cuccinelli's gubernatorial nomination and decide its two other statewide candidates.

Posted: 1:53 PM On Friday, the 2013 State Convention for the Republican Party of Virginia kicked off in Richmond.

Updated: 6:20 PM Some of the Republican candidates for Virignia's lieutenant governor met with voters Friday afternoon.

Updated: 7:20 PM An alternative economy group hit 150 members on Tuesday.

Posted: 2:14 PM Republican Ken Cuccinelli is proposing to slash taxes by $1.4 billion, including cutting corporate tax rates by one-third if he's elected governor.

Updated: 5:36 PM Democrat Terry McAuliffe is continuing statewide tour with his party's luminaries in an official launch of a Virginia governor's race he entered almost six months ago.

Posted: 12:03 PM The first of what's guaranteed to be many television ads aired into November by candidates in Virginia's close and bitter governor's race is set for a Monday debut.

Updated: 5:10 PM Police charged four men with hazing in relation to an incident which resulted in the drowning of at least one university student.

Updated: 5:52 PM The Democratic candidate for governor visited the Valley on Wednesday.

Updated: 7:03 AM Harrisonburg- Harrisonburg City Schools held a board meeting Tuesday night.

Updated: 6:29 PM Your election precinct may be in a new location come election time.

Updated: 6:08 PM USDA representatives met with Valley farmers market leaders to discuss how to serve people in rural Virginia.

Updated: 12:45 PM Two civil rights groups are urging Gov. Bob McDonnell to issue an executive order restoring the voting rights of about 350,000 felons who have completed their sentences.

Updated: 6:38 PM Gov. Bob McDonnell signed the voter identification bill. That means, starting next year, you'll have to have a photo ID when you head to the polls to vote in Virginia.

Posted: 10:21 AM A bill requiring voters to bring photo identification with them to the polls will become law next year in Virginia.

Updated: 12:52 PM School leaders are working with the county to make up for a $2 million budget shortfall.

Posted: 5:02 PM The West Virginia Senate voted unanimously to allow online voting registration.

Updated: 6:41 PM Thirty neighbors in the Valley got together Monday night to find out how zoning could impact their neighborhoods.

Updated: 7:19 PM A political analyst discussed Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling's voting record and what it may have to do with a potential run for the governorship.

Posted: 2:14 PM Police say they won't file any charges against the son of Democratic Congressman Jim Moran of Virginia, who was captured in an undercover video discussing a plan to cast fraudulent ballots.

Posted: 3:33 PM The Virginia Senate has approved a bill that would cut in half the number of signatures presidential candidates in Virginia would have to submit to qualify for the state's primary ballot.