Posted: 05/17/2013 - 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: 05/17/2013 - Powerball officials say the jackpot has climbed to an estimated $600 million, making it the largest prize in the game's history and the world's second largest lottery prize.
Posted: 05/17/2013 - The Virginia Employment Commission says the state's jobless rate fell in April for the second consecutive month.
Posted: 05/17/2013 - West Virginia's trout anglers are gearing up for the first-ever celebration of the state's trout-fishing heritage.
Posted: 05/17/2013 - Gov. Bob McDonnell is launching an ambitious campaign to match more than 1,000 children in foster care with 1,000 adoptive parents.
Posted: 05/17/2013 - Rates at Virginia's community colleges are going up.
Posted: 05/17/2013 - 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: 05/17/2013 - The Virginia Employment Commission says the state's jobless rate fell in April for the second consecutive month.
Posted: 05/17/2013 - Gov. Bob McDonnell is launching an ambitious campaign to match more than 1,000 children in foster care with 1,000 adoptive parents.
Posted: 05/17/2013 - Rates at Virginia's community colleges are going up.
Posted: 05/16/2013 - Virginia transportation officials worked for hours to remove a huge makeshift shelter a homeless man built and lived in for 9 years.
Posted: 05/17/2013 - West Virginia's trout anglers are gearing up for the first-ever celebration of the state's trout-fishing heritage.
Updated: 05/16/2013 - West Virginia is getting more than $1 million in federal funding to offset the cost of its response to the crushing snowstorm that Hurricane Sandy spawned last fall.
Posted: 05/15/2013 - A mass litigation trial against the nation's largest tobacco manufacturers is wrapping up in Charleston.
Posted: 05/14/2013 - Two state officials are blasting the Environmental Protection Agency over new air pollution rules.
Updated: 05/13/2013 - Emergency officials say crews are responding to reports of explosions and a fire at an industrial site in Putnam County.
Posted: 05/17/2013 - Powerball officials say the jackpot has climbed to an estimated $600 million, making it the largest prize in the game's history and the world's second largest lottery prize.
Posted: 05/16/2013 - Don't look for the outcry over the Internal Revenue Service's improper targeting of tea party groups to subside with the ouster of the agency's acting commissioner.
Posted: 05/15/2013 - Attorney General Eric Holder is facing what is likely to be aggressive questioning Wednesday by the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee on topics ranging from the Justice Department's gathering of phone records at The Associated Press to the government's handling of intelligence before the Boston Marathon bombings.
Posted: 05/12/2013 - A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster.
Posted: 05/12/2013 - An FBI agent in Stafford County is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of his estranged wife.