The State Board of Elections has released the list of who has made this year’s ballot. In western Virginia, 71% of school board seats are uncontested.

The post-election audits are a big step for Virginia’s campaign finance system, which until last year, strictly relied upon the honor system, but the first audit raises unanswered questions.

Democrats hold strong campaign finance leads in many races across Virginia this year, according to the most recent campaign finance reports.

Then, Wednesday morning, things appeared to get worse: Virginia Commonwealth University released a poll — the first since the June 17 primary — that showed Democrats leading all three statewide races, ...

The economy of the state’s biggest economic engine is changing. What happens in Northern Virginia will reach all the way to Southwest Virginia.

The faculty want “shared governance.” There’s nothing in state law that mandates that, though. What we have is a culture clash between a liberal faculty and a conservative ...

David M. Poole is a former political writer for the Lynchburg News & Advance and Roanoke Times. In 1997, Poole founded the Virginia Public Access Project, a nonprofit dedicated to providing fact-based ...

The electric utility, which has about 540,000 customers in Western Virginia, says its upgrades will reduce outages, improve security and better prepare the grid for future advanced technologies.

The former Harvey Colored School sat forgotten in the woods after integration, until former student Annie Wilson Mosby relocated and restored it.

Roanoke expresses concerns over Carvins Cove water loss and that the city is “giving away” a key asset. Botetourt says a multimillion-dollar plan to address the issue is already in ...

Patrick Henry will never be forgotten — “Liberty or Death” ensures that — but he’s less remembered than his peers who became president, partly because he never served in that office, and also because ...

The well-known Barracks Road Shopping Center takes its name from a Revolutionary War barracks that housed prisoners.