Charlotte Rene Woods

A bipartisan cohort of lawmakers has been touring the state in recent months to hear from community members like Roane-Bell and healthcare providers. They’ll compile legislative proposals by the end of the year that the General Assembly could take up in the 2025 session.

A law took effect last week that allowed certain incarcerated people to be released from prison for acquiring earned sentence credits.

The grants, a federal subsidy for some qualifying undergraduate students, have not been applicable to incarcerated people for much of the past 30 years.

Executive Order 32 reestablishes the Maternal Health Data and Quality Measures Task Force, which was first established in 2021 and ran through the end of last year.

Effort part of Democratic strategy to keep focus on abortion access ahead of November election, say analysts

About 15% of people in Virginia don’t have a birthing hospital within a 30-minute drive, according to a report from the March of Dimes.

Some new laws in Virginia offer more protections to residents of mobile home parks.

Youngkin has now vetoed a total of 201 bills from the 2024 legislative session, a record-setting number for a modern governor that reflects Virginia’s divided government.