Virginia

School districts across Virginia are adopting an inconsistent patchwork of responses to an executive order from Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin that aims to allow parents to opt-out of classroom mask mandates

Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder reports after a heated school board meeting in Spotsylvania County.

Prince William County police released a photo Tuesday of an 18-year-old man wanted for shooting and killing a woman Monday inside an apartment in Manassas, Virginia.

A Virginia woman who vanished last week from the convenience store where she works remains missing even as authorities announced the arrest of a man charged with abducting her.

Some school districts in Northern Virginia appear to be at odds with Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order to lift the mask mandate. News4’s Julie Carey reports.

A woman who was shot multiple times inside an apartment in Manassas, Virginia, was targeted, police say. News4’s Paul Wagner reports.

A suspect remains at large after shooting a woman to death Monday morning in front of other people inside an apartment in Manassas, Virginia, police say. Mary Anne Smoot, 37, was shot multiple times, police said. Officers tried to give her first aid before medics pronounced her dead at the scene. Smoot went to the apartment at 8111 Cobden Court…

Watch Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s full 2022 inauguration speech.

Glenn Youngkin was inaugurated as Virginia’s governor and promised to change policies on COVID-19, education, taxes, the economy and criminal justice.

Julie Carey reports on what the governor-elect hopes to get done on day one and in the years ahead.

The first Republican governor in eight years promised a change in direction. Here are four things to watch for.

With COVID-19 cases spiking in Virginia, more hospitals have moved into what’s called “crisis standards of care,” which allows them to extend resources and reduce the impact of supply or physician shortages. In Fredericksburg, Mary Washington Hospital transformed its parking garage into a field hospital. News4’s Cory Smith got an inside look before the first patients arrived.

Virginia’s attorney general says police in Virginia Beach used forged documents linking people’s DNA to a crime to get them to confess.

Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports on the opening session of Virginia’s General Assembly.

A teen convicted of two sexual assaults inside Loudoun County Public Schools was ordered to undergo treatment at a facility until he turns 18 and to register as a sex offender. News4’s Drew Wilder has the details.

Glenn Youngkin is set to take office in Richmond, Virginia, Saturday as the commonwealth’s 74th governor and the first Republican elected to the office since 2009. The inauguration will hand over control of the state’s top elected offices from Democrats to Republicans. Also set to be sworn in are Attorney General-elect Jason Miyares and Lt. Gov.-elect Winsome Sears. She’ll...

The Virginia General Assembly is convening its 2022 session in Richmond, under newly divided party control

Authorities in Virginia say a man who tried walking home after his vehicle broke down during Monday’s winter storm has been found dead.

Republican Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin has announced his pick for Virginia’s next secretary of health and human resources, a role that will involve helping oversee pandemic-related public policy

A 3-year-old girl is recovering after she was struck by a car while walking with her father in Fairfax County, Virginia, the family told our sister station Telemundo 44.