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

Yehudit Shamir and her husband returned to the Kibbutz on the Gaza border where they first met decades earlier. October 7 sent the family running from tragedy.

The historic Black neighborhood of Jackson Ward was intentionally split by highway development in the 1950s. Generations later, could a plan to reconnect the north and south sides renew a community?

Alexandria’s poet laureate, Zeina Azzam, has gone viral with her poetry capturing the pain and uncertainty of surviving conflict in Gaza.

Legislation going into effect July 1 brings $16 million in new aid to grandparents and other family members caring for relatives’ children

VCIJ at WHRO InvestigationVirginia inspectors have levied $1.9 million in fines against Dollar Tree and Family Dollar in the past 10 years for health and safety violations, according to a VCIJ at WHRO analysis. Federal inspectors have forced the stores’ parent company to pay millions more. Now, worker advocates and activist investors have increased calls to improve store and warehouse conditions.

Jammie Hale moved to a rural hilltop in Southwest Virginia to get back to his family’s roots. When the MVP came through a neighboring property, he found another purpose

The state budget approved May 13 creates a panel to probe the displacement of Black families by public college and university developments and consider possible redress