Virginia’s investment in its passenger rail infrastructure aims to reduce chronic traffic, decrease its carbon footprint and catch up to states with a competitive state-run passenger rail service, such as New York, and Illinois.

Fatal overdose rates remain high in Virginia, even as the state begins to spread opioid settlement money to state and local agencies to help tackle the epidemic. 

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has launched a website cataloging violations of federal animal welfare rules at five Virginia public universities that use animals in their research. 

The U.S. Coast Guard released two reports detailing decades of cases where sexual assault and harrassment.