REPUBLICAN PARTY OF VIRGINIA

He promised to start an honest conversation about race and how to heal the lingering wounds of Virginia’s painful past. Then he disappeared.

President Donald Trump weighed in on controversy in Virginia over a state lawmaker’s failed bill related to late-term abortion.

Virginia’s attorney general is the latest of the top elected officials in the state to face a scandal. He said Wednesday that he once wore blackface. News4’s Julie Carey has the latest details from Richmond on Gov. Ralph Northam, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax and Attorney General Mark Herring.

Del. Ibraheem Samirah, the Virginia state representative for the 86th district, disrupted President Donald Trump’s speech at the 400th anniversary of Jamestown today. The interruption was a protest against “racism and bigotry,” Samirah said later on Twitter.

Two months after a blackface photo in an old yearbook nearly ended the political career of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, his life seems mostly back to normal.

A 32-year-old Murrieta man was arrested Thursday for allegedly sexually assaulting his 8-year-old daughter.

Virginia’s Democratic governor, Ralph Northam, convened an “urgent meeting with top staff and administration officials of color as he faces intense pressure to resign.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam refused mounting calls for his resignation after a photo surfaced on his yearbook page showing people in blackface and a KKK robe, stressing that he “truly” doesn’t believe he was in the picture.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam refused mounting calls for his resignation after a photo surfaced on his yearbook page showing people in blackface and a KKK robe, stressing that he “truly” doesn’t believe he was in the picture.

A fierce battle is being waged in Richmond and beyond over a Northern Virginia lawmaker’s efforts to loosen restrictions in the state on third-trimester abortions.

Days after a Virginia state delegate introduced a bill that would loosen restrictions on third-term abortions, state Democrats and Republicans weighed in on Thursday. News4’s Chris Gordon shows what happened, and what it could mean for the state in the year ahead.

Democratic candidate Leslie Cockburn took to Twitter Sunday night to accuse her Republican opponent Denver Riggleman of being a “devotee of Bigfoot erotica.”

The chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia has resigned.

Virginia election officials say dozens of voters were wrongly assigned ballots in a district that could determine party control in the House of Delegates.

No one ever asks Danica Roem about being a transgender woman as she campaigns door to door for a Virginia House of Delegates seat, she says. Del. Bob Marshall, who she’s trying to oust, called her “him” in campaign materials. Why Roem said he does it: “When Delegate Marshall realized he cannot win on public policy issues, on traffic, jobs,...

John Whitbeck, chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia, implied on Twitter that the mailer was racist.

For the two mild-manned moderates vying to be the next governor of Virginia, running for office in the Trump era makes for some awkward looks.

The Republican Party of Virginia apologized Wednesday for tweets aimed at the Democratic nominee for governor that many viewed as racist.

In a new level of coarseness for the media, all the Trump-related vulgarities were printed in full by The New York Times and CNN on their websites. Cable political shows and other outlets aired them unedited in some cases.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump won their party’s respective presidential primaries Tuesday in Virginia, a swing state likely to play a key role in November’s general election.