Virginia House of Delegates

The Virginia House of Delegates has approved a budget that includes funding for a host of criminal justice and police reforms amid national unrest over racial injustice and police brutality

Democrats have flipped enough seats in the Virginia House of Delegates and the state Senate to win control of both chambers. News4’s Julie Carey reports from Richmond.

Virginians will elect members of the House of Delegates this year using a map seen as favorable to Democrats, under a ruling Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Virginia lawmakers voted Wednesday to hike gas taxes in some parts of the state to improve Interstate 81 while also voting to restore suspended driver’s licenses to hundreds of thousands of motorists.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam made his first public appearance in Northern Virginia since a racist yearbook photo surfaced and he admitted to once wearing blackface. News4 Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey speaks with Virginia residents about their thoughts on the governor’s appearance.

Republicans in the Virginia House of Delegates say they will open their own investigation into the sex assault allegations against Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, and plan to invite Fairfax’s accusers to testify. News4’s Julie Carey reports.

The failure of a last-ditch effort for approval of the Equal Rights Amendment in Virginia evoked frustration and tears in Richmond on Thursday.

A woman demonstrating in Richmond, Virginia, in support of the Equal Rights Amendment will be held without bond for more than a month for exposing a breast in public, a judge ruled Tuesday.

After initially ordering a New York woman who mimicked Virginia’s seal by exposing her breast outside the Capitol to be held without bail, a Virginia judge has agreed to release her.

The Virginia House of Delegates has passed a bill prohibiting drivers from holding their cellphones while on the road.

The Virginia House of Delegates has passed a bill prohibiting drivers from holding their cell phones while on the road. News4’s Justin Finch reports.

As Democrats and Republicans continued partisan sniping Friday over a House seat that could determine the balance of power in the Virginia House of Delegates, state elections officials moved to break the deadlock by scheduling a random drawing to pick the winner.

Three weeks after Jennifer Carroll Foy launched her campaign for the Virginia House of Delegates, she found out she was pregnant with twins. She gave birth to her identical boys, Alex and Xander, early at only 23 weeks gestation.

Jennifer Carroll Foy won a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates on Tuesday. She found out she was pregnant with twins during her campaign, and hopes to bring her second baby home from the hospital in the next week.

Virginians elected a slew of women to office in 2017. Most of them were new candidates, and many beat male incumbents. News4’s Julie Carey speaks with several winners.

The first transgender person to run for the Virginia House of Delegates found an unlikely silver lining in President Trump’s decision to ban transgender people from serving in the military.

The first transgender person to run for the Virginia House of Delegates says President Trump’s decision to ban transgender people from serving in the military led to her biggest day of fund-raising yet. News4’s Chris Gordon spoke to Danica Roem, who is running as a Democrat from the 13th District in Virginia — and her Republican opponent, Bob Marshall.

If you’re planning to vote in the Virginia primary, make sure you know your candidates and polling place info.

A federal court has picked a new congressional map for Virginia that significantly changes the racial makeup of two districts and could help Democrats pick up a seat. But the new map could be short lived if the U.S. Supreme Court decides to throw it out.

A panel of federal judges will hear arguments about whether the Virginia House of Delegates illegally packed black voters into a dozen legislative districts.