Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. RICHMOND — The General Assembly started about two hours late at its reconvened session Wednesday because of an apparent discord ...

RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia General Assembly's 2025 legislative session is off to a slippery start as water issues in Richmond will put the state's legislators into an immediate recess on Wednesday.

RICHMOND, Va. — Wednesday, the Privileges and Elections Committee in the Virginia General Assembly heard arguments on three proposed constitutional amendments. On Thursday, lawmakers are helping us ...

Daniel Peyton, Kassie Schroth, John Thomas Jr. Few changes to the commonwealth’s employment laws emerged from the General Assembly’s 2024 legislative session. While several modest reforms made their ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A crowd of people gathered in downtown Richmond today to take part in the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Virginia General Assembly Building’s public opening. The celebratory ...

The Virginia General Assembly will convene a Special Session this week to take up redistricting. This follows similar efforts in states like North Carolina, Texas, and California. Changing the timing ...

Taxes, abortion and energy policy are among the issues the Virginia General Assembly is expected to debate when it convenes Wednesday for its annual legislative session. But expectations on how much ...

RICHMOND — The General Assembly adopted a two-year budget plan Saturday before it adjourned, closing out a 60-day legislative session that sent more than a thousand bills to Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s desk ...

RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia General Assembly reconvened Wednesday afternoon to deliberate on amendments made by Gov. Glenn Youngkin to dozens of bills and the state budget. Lawmakers faced a long ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia General Assembly’s airy new legislative building, home to lawmakers’ offices and the committee rooms where much of the Legislature’s work is done, is set to open to ...

RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia lawmakers are now halfway through the General Assembly session. All bills passed in the first chamber, where they were introduced, now have to go to the opposite chamber. If a ...