In a sweeping move aimed at promoting transparency and leveling the playing field in election access, the Virginia Department ...

Virginia’s in-progress amendment will likely feature as a prominent selling point for candidates — whether they’re vowing to ...

Our car tax is a much-reviled but long-lived creature. Both gubernatorial candidates, Democrat Abigail Spanberger and ...

Virginia Railway Express CEO Rich Dalton will retire from the commuter rail service in the fall, the operations board ...

Though America is in its 47th presidency (with many presidents serving multiple terms), just five times has a candidate won ...

Thoughts from Mister Roger’s neighborhood: quick hits by your intrepid Virginia Mercury columnist, Roger Chesley.

With early voting already underway and primary day set for Tuesday, Virginia’s House of Delegates races are shaping up to be ...

As protests erupt again in Los Angeles over U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and President Donald Trump’s ...

Richmond-based state Senator Ghazala Hashmi declared victory in Virginia’s Democratic lieutenant governor primary Tuesday ...

In a nail-biter Democratic primary Tuesday, Jay Jones narrowly defeated Henrico Commonwealth’s Attorney Shannon Taylor in the ...

Virginia played a key role in brokering a sweeping $7.4 billion settlement that will permanently sever the Sackler family ...

With seven contenders vying to become Virginia’s next lieutenant governor, the Mercury asked all the hopefuls to answer a ...