A judge has ordered that eight university board members tapped by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin should be removed from their posts.

Virginians shopping online at Walmart may have noticed a new pop-up warning them about how their reproductive health data is tracked. It’s the result of a new state law designed to protect personal privacy, and more retailers are expected to follow suit.

The collapse of a proposal to relocate the Washington NBA and NHL teams to northern Virginia has set off an extraordinary round of bitter recriminations among some of the officials and companies that were parties to the deal.

Work on compromise budget legislation Virginia lawmakers will take up later this week is complete, and the bill does not include language enabling a proposed relocation by the NBA’s Washington Wizards and NHL’s Washington Capitals to Alexandria.

A leading Democratic Virginia legislator says proposed legislation to help pave the way for the NBA’s Washington Wizards and NHL’s Washington Capitals to relocate to northern Virginia is dead.

Virginia lawmakers have approved legislation that would allow local police departments to use facial recognition technology in some circumstances, including when they have reasonable suspicion a person has committed a crime.

Democratic Sen. Scott Surovell is again sponsoring a bill that would abolish the death penalty, and he has a Republican chief co-patron. (Virginia Department of Corrections via AP, File)RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia moved another step closer to ending capital punishment on Friday when the state House joined the Senate in voting to abolish the death penalty. It's a dramatic shift for Virginia, which has put more people to death over its centuries-long history than any other state. In modern times, Virginia trails only Texas in the number of executions since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. AdLast year, death penalty abolition bills in the General Assembly went nowhere.

RICHMOND, Va. – After a lengthy and impassioned floor debate, the Democrat-controlled Virginia Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would require every local school division to make both virtual and in-person learning available to students. AdThe chamber passed the bill, which would not take effect until July 1, on a 26-13 bipartisan vote. At least one similar but more narrow bill aimed at students without adequate internet access failed during last year’s special legislative session. Virginia currently has a patchwork approach to schooling, with some public and private schools offering in-person learning while others offer only virtual school. Northam, a Democrat and a physician, recently rolled out new guidance aimed at getting more public schools open for in-person instruction.

Democratic Sen. Scott Surovell is again sponsoring a bill that would abolish the death penalty, and he has a Republican chief co-patron. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)RICHMOND, Va. – Death penalty opponents are cautiously optimistic they have enough bipartisan support from lawmakers to pass a bill next year ending executions in Virginia. Democratic Sen. Scott Surovell is again sponsoring a bill that would abolish the death penalty, and he has a Republican chief co-patron. The measure would commute the sentences of the only two inmates on Virginia’s death row to life in prison without parole. With Democrats holding slim majorities in both the House and Senate for a second year Surovell thinks there’s an opening.

The legislation also would have required an investigation by a different police officer and approval by a prosecutor if charged as a felony. Surovell and other critics of the current law say police use the charge too often, particularly in cases involving excessive force. Instead, the bill was designed to make a distinction between serious assaults and minor assaults, he said. “I’m concerned that this bill will basically declare open season on police officers,” Campbell said. The committee approved Bourne’s suggestion that the bill be referred to the Virginia State Crime Commission for study, effectively ending its chances for passage during the special session.