After graduating from the Naval Academy and serving 12 years as a helicopter pilot and instructor, Julie Hendricks has taken on a new commission — poll worker.

Laura Mollo wanted her hometown of Richlands, Virginia to be a safe, secure place for her young family. She turned to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act to bring about change.

Virginia is the only state that permanently bans all ex-felons from voting unless they receive an executive pardon.. Richard Walker uses his nonprofit – and cooking skills – to help other former felons win back their voting rights

Nonprofit newsroom claims state Department of Criminal Justice Services improperly withheld names and records of law enforcement officers, preventing the public from tracking wayward cops.

Hampton Clerk of City Council Katherine Glass stumbled into local government. She’s been soothing angry citizens, organizing public meetings and counting votes for two decades.

Sajia Afzali and her young family escaped their home in the capital city just hours before the brutal Taliban regime regained authority. The family is building a new life – with local support – in Virginia.

Retired Rear Adm. Ann Phillips was among the first cohorts of women to serve on ships at sea. She said “as soon as somebody tells me no, then I'm like, ‘Hmm, oh yes, watch this.’”

The year-round job of keeping Virginia’s annual elections running like clockwork falls to local officials who work to stay above the political fray.

Navy vet and minority advocate Lindsay Church’s personal and public life merged when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade

Anne Adams - owner, reporter and most everything in between for her rural weekly - preserves a 147-year-old newspaper.

Ken Mallory reviewed ballots in a historically close Newport News election. One vote made all the difference.

Shorter lifespans, elevated levels of asthma, high blood pressure, heart and lung disease found in Black neighborhoods along highways