Until recently, Virginia was a state where voters had to have a reason to vote early. Now, the General Assembly is debating ways to make voting easier.

Virginia Opera is performing 'Intelligence,' which is based on two Richmond women who worked for the North during the Civil War. The opera will be performed in Norfolk, Richmond and Fairfax.

Giant blue boulders suspend from the ceiling and whimsical mushroom sculptures are dotted throughout the gallery in a new 3-D art exhibit on display at the Radford University art museum.

For decades, people have debated whether an Atlantic menhaden industrial fishing fleet is fishing sustainably in the Chesapeake Bay. But without solid data, fishing continues.

Members of the state Senate are considering a bill that would ban the purchase or sale of assault weapons in Virginia.

Mandatory minimum sentences became popular in the 1990s, a time when law and order lawmakers added so many offenses to the list that Virginia prisons strained to accommodate all the inmates.

Even before federal agents shot and killed a second U.S. citizen in Minnesota over the weekend, Democrats in Virginia were looking to limit future agreements between federal agencies and state and local law enforcement when immigration is involved.

Labor politics are at the center of a debate over collective bargaining.

A range of shifting perspectives — across the state and the country — will affect how legal sales are established in the Commonwealth.

Many people in Danville have never heard of Freedmens' Cemetery, where more than 1,500 Black residents are buried. But after decades of neglect, Freedmens' will be restored and maintained in the same way as two adjacent cemeteries that were historically unavailable to Black families.Cardinal News reporter Grace Mamon is covering this story and she spoke with Fred Echols.