Lee Carter

A Virginia lawmaker has announced he’s running for governor.

The General Assembly’s self-described socialist member is sponsoring legislation to repeal the state’s right-to-work law, which says employees can’t be forced to join a labor union.

Virginia Democrats took control of both chambers of state legislature for first time in more than two decades, the Associated Press reported.

Virginia votes on Tuesday, Nov 5. Here are the races to watch in Northern Virginia and beyond.

Virginians voted in primary elections Tuesday. Off-year contests for all 140 seats in the state Legislature could serve as a political barometer for the coming presidential year.

Two commonwealth’s attorneys who lost to challengers who ran to the left are among the upsets in Virginia’s primary. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports.

The Fredericksburg Regional Food Bank is now feeding furloughed federal workers who can’t afford meals. News4’s David Culver spoke with the woman in charge of distrubuting the food who is the spouse of a furloughed employee.

Virginia Del. Lee Carter wants you to know that he is in the midst of his third divorce, can’t hold a job, lobbed homophobic insults when he was young, and may even have explicit photos of himself floating around on the internet....
It’s not that the incumbent Democrat wants to lose the election next year; he just wants to get all...