Virginia Politics

Classroom culture wars continue to fuel partisan debate throughout Virginia, and Gov. Glenn Youngkin recently took his veto pen to a bill that would’ve allowed students a choice to substitute World History 1 or World Geography with African American History or Advanced Placement African American Studies. Under the bill, those classes — for the first time — could have counted…

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed a bill that would’ve allowed students a choice to substitute World History 1 or World Geography with African American History or Advanced Placement African American Studies and have those classes count towards graduation requirements. News4’s Drew Wilder reports.

Virginia is known as the “data center capital of the world.” As technology continues to evolve, many are concerned about the effects of those facilities on local communities, including neighborhoods and environmental resources. “For those who have lived in the shadow of these facilities, they understand completely what this means,” said Kathryn Kulick, an HOA Roundtable representative in Virginia....

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed a bipartisan bill designed to regulate data centers. News4’s Arielle Hixson reports.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin defended his call to Republican nominee for lieutenant governor John Reid, who said the governor’s advisors are pushing him to drop out of the race amid claims about sexually explicit photos. Youngkin said he called Reid, the first openly gay man to run on the Republican statewide ticket, because he believes concerns about lewd photos...

Virginia’s Republican nominee for lieutenant governor is accusing Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s political advisors of extortion and says they’re trying to force him to end his campaign. John Reid is the first openly gay man to run on the Republican statewide ticket. In two videos he posted online, he went public with details of what he called Youngkin’s efforts to...

Virginia’s GOP candidate for lieutenant governor is accusing Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s advisors of extortion for trying to force him to end his campaign. News4 Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports.

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin is asking his party’s candidate vying to be Virginia’s next lieutenant governor to step aside.

The Virginia governor’s race is now set after a candidate who often called herself “Trump in heels” as well as a former state delegate did not qualify for the ballot. Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears will face Democratic nominee and former congresswoman Abigail Spanberger. The Republican Party of Virginia said Saturday that Earle-Sears was the sole candidate to qualify...

Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears will face Democratic nominee and former congresswoman Abigail Spanberger in the Virginia governor’s race. Here’s what to know after the state GOP said Amanda Chase and Dave LaRock did not qualify for the ballot.

A Virginia mother who lost her son to fentanyl is trying to save others from the drug. A bill named after her son was just signed into law by Gov. Glenn Youngkin. “I want my son’s legacy to be measured in lives saved,” Thurraya Kent said. The News4 I-Team first spoke with the Kent family from Northern Virginia about...

A Virginia mom who lost her son to fentanyl is trying to save others with the recently signed Malcolm’s Law, which will require hospitals in Virginia to test urine samples for fentanyl. News4’s Jessica Albert reports.

Del. Destiny LeVere Bolling by all accounts became the first woman in Virginia given the go-ahead by political leaders to vote remotely after she delivered her child last week. While the freshman delegate juggled nursery prep and committee meetings, LeVere Bolling went into labor just days after lawmakers hit the halfway point of their legislative session. According to this year’s...

The Virginia governor’s race, long considered an early indicator of voter attitudes, is feeling the effects of the Trump administration’s aggressive push to cut government jobs. Some 145,000 federal employees and many more government contractors live in Virginia.

The Democratic-led Virginia Senate and House of Delegates appropriations committees each presented state budget plans that include onetime tax rebates to all taxpayers. Their proposals counter Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s proposal to provide permanent tax relief on cars to lower- and middle-income Virginians. Both Virginia House and Senate committees unanimously passed similar plans Sunday adjusting the final year of the...

Democratic former U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger and Republican Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears are picking up steam in their bids to be Virginia’s next governor. The governor’s race, along with all 100 seats of the Virginia House of Delegates, will be on the ballot this November. But the campaigns are gearing up at a time when voters are unplugging from...

Lawmakers in the Virginia House of Delegates passed resolutions on Tuesday enshrining rights to abortion, voting and marriage equality in a critical step for Democrats hoping to amend the state’s constitution next year. The Democratic-lead House advanced the three proposed constitutional amendments Tuesday while sister resolutions work their way through the Senate. Proposed constitutional amendments are not subject to vetoes...

In Virginia, a resolution to put a constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights on the ballot took its first step forward Tuesday on a party line vote.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin used his State of the Commonwealth address to take a bow for the strong Virginia economy and to push for more tax relief, but Democratic leaders are pushing back on some of his proposals. News4 Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports.

Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin is urging a skeptical Democratic-controlled Legislature to work with him to roll back taxes and environmental laws in his administration’s final year in office. The term-limited governor’s growing national profile has stirred speculation that he could make a future White House bid. But to expand his resume of policy accomplishments this year he’ll have to...