A coalition of environmental groups plans to file a lawsuit to try to block Virginia from withdrawing from a multistate compact designed to reduce greenhouse gases. The Southern Environmental Law Center filed notice Monday with state regulators indicating their intention to sue to keep Virginia in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin made withdrawal from the compact a priority. He says the program increases the cost of electricity. Last month the state’s Air Pollution Control Board voted 4-3 to repeal Virginia’s participation in the initiative. The compact set ..read more

Loudoun County Public Schools announced the graduation schedule for the Class of 2024 in a recent press release ..read more

Virginia House Republicans are backing away from a previous request for a permanent individual tax rate reduction amid a long-running partisan impasse over the state's spending plan. GOP Del. Barry Knight made an offer to his Democratic Senate counterparts nearly two weeks ago, outlining a framework that would ditch the tax rate cut and spend more of the state’s multi-billion-dollar surplus on one-time tax rebates. That's according to an outline of the offer obtained by The Associated Press. Knight’s proposal also does not include a corporate tax cut proposed by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin ..read more

Several Virginia businesses have been hit with five-figure fines this month as state officials start enforcing stricter new rules on the contents and labeling of hemp products to try to crack ..read more

Donald Trump has been indicted on felony charges for working to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the run-up to the violent riot by his supporters at the U.S. Capitol. The Justice Department's four-count indictment Tuesday accuses the former president of assaulting the underpinnings of democracy in a frantic but ultimately failed effort to cling to power. Special counsel Jack Smith says the Capitol attack “was fueled by lies, lies by the defendant targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the U.S. government: the nation’s process of collecting counting and certifying the results ..read more

Bipartisan backers of a proposal to create a Virginia Prescription Drug Affordability Board vowed Aug. 1 to reintroduce legislation during the 2024 General Assembly session, saying they believ ..read more

A Leesburg man is accused of trying to meet a minor to have sex in Frederick County, Maryland ..read more

The Virginia Craft Brewers Guild announced this year's Virginia Craft Beer Cup winners on July 31 at an event held at Hardywood Park Craft Brewery’s West Creek location in Richmond ..read more

The Purcellville Police Department will soon have body-worn cameras for the first time after Purcellville Town Council passed two budget amendments at a July 25 town council meeting on July 25 ..read more

Leesburg Economic Developer Russell Seymour presented his strategies for developing a program that will help local small business owners during the town council’s work session Monday night ..read more