Glenn Youngkin

One year after an employee at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, opened fire inside the store where he worked and killed six people, flags in the state will sit at half-staff to honor those victims.

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia had made clear his Election Day expectations.

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin has expressed disappointment with election results that allowed Democrats to take control of both the Virginia House and Senate, but pledged to work with the party’s new legislative majority on bipartisan priorities. Only two ultra-competitive Virginia legislative races remain undecided. The Associated Press has not yet called one House race and one Senate race that will...

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin wasn’t on the ballot on Tuesday but Republicans’ projected losses may hurt him. “I don’t think 2024 is really in the picture for Gov. Youngkin anymore,” University of Maryland politics professor David Karol said.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin visited an Ashburn polling place on Election Day and discussed how he believes Republicans can address voters’ top issues.

The Virginia governor’s order comes after 10 students overdosed so far this school year at Loudoun County Public Schools. News4’s Drew Wilder reports.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has issued an executive directive aimed at combatting antisemitism and other forms of anti-religious hatred amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The governor’s order issued Tuesday instructs law enforcement to share and coordinate more on potential antisemitic acts through a situation room. It also asks Virginia’s higher education institutions to submit updated comprehensive safety plans. Youngkin says...

The plan comes after an “alarming” uptick in incidents since the Israel-Hamas war began in early October.

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration has identified nearly 3,400 voters who were improperly removed from the state’s rolls due to probation violations. That’s a greater number than the administration previously acknowledged. The Department of Elections said in a statement Friday that the vast majority of those voters have been reinstated by local registrars. The administration says the error stemmed from...

The Virginia NAACP filed a lawsuit Friday alleging Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration failed to turn over public records to explain how it decides whether to restore the voting rights of convicted felons who have completed their sentences.

It’s a bit election year for the Commonwealth, with every seat in the General Assembly on the ballot. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

Two Virginia Beach parents have filed a lawsuit seeking to force their local school system to adopt Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s initiatives for the treatment of transgender students. Those policies roll back many accommodations for transgender students urged by the previous Democratic administration. Last month, the Virginia Beach School Board narrowly voted down a proposal that would have adopted...

Critics say the pardon conflicts with state law. Virginia’s Constitution says a governor may grant pardons after conviction.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin spoke Tuesday about the unusual pardon he issued for a Loudoun County parent, saying he has the “full authority” to pardon him. News4’s Drew Wilder reports.

Gov. Youngkin has pardoned a Loudoun father arrested at a school board meeting after his daughter was sexually assaulted at school in 2021. That father spoke to News4’s Joseph Olmo.

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has pardoned a Loudoun County father arrested during an incident at a Loudoun County School Board meeting in 2021.

Virginia lawmakers will reconvene in Richmond next week to consider a compromise General Assembly negotiators recently reached on the long-delayed state budget. Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s office said Tuesday he has called the Legislature into session Sept. 6 to consider the deal. Negotiators representing the Republican-controlled House of Delegates and Democratic-controlled Senate announced last week the bare-bones outlines of a compromise...

The governor will try again to pass new abortion legislation if his party takes control of the General Assembly this fall.

The conflict between state officials and some Northern Virginia school leaders over the commonwealth’s policies on transgender and nonbinary students is sharpening after Virginia’s attorney general weighed in with his opinion. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey explains several school districts aren’t planning to follow the guidelines because they believe they conflict with existing laws.

Virginia’s attorney general says Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s new model policies for the treatment of transgender students are in line with federal and state nondiscrimination laws and school boards must follow their guidance. Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares issued the advisory opinion Thursday. It comes as a growing number of school boards across the state are responding to the administration’s...