It looks like sky-high gas prices will be nothing more than a speed bump for July 4 travelers.

The Virginia Department of Transportation can't hire enough independent contractors to remove snow from state roads and interstate highways, especially in emergency conditions, according to a new report by the Office of the State Inspector General.

Chesterfield County police are investigating the death of an 18-month-old boy who died Tuesday after being left unattended in a vehicle for several hours. The boy's father later committed suicide, police said. 

A key witness and Hampton Roads product took the stand Tuesday in a last-minute session of a congressional committee’s investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

A 76-year-old Stafford County woman was killed Monday when the driver of the car she was riding in suffered an apparent medical emergency and crashed into a tree, police said.

If the board doesn't welcome his administration into the search for a new chancellor, "I will accept your resignation June 30," Youngkin wrote. 

A group of bicyclists set out from the Pentagon earlier this month with two goals: to honor those who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks and to spread word about a bike trail that connects all three sites where planes went down that day in 2001.

Hershel W. "Woody" Williams, the last remaining Medal of Honor recipient from World War II, died at a Veterans Affairs medical center in West Virginia.

A state senator who is working on Gov. Glenn Youngkin's legislative effort to bar most abortions after 15 weeks says enforcement could target the licenses of doctors who violate such a ban.

Richmond native Sesha Joi Moon, co-creator of a historic preservation project in Richmond’s Jackson Ward, has been named director of the House of Representatives Office of Diversity and Inclusion, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Monday.

Henrico County's Police Chief Eric English said there have been 266 vehicles stolen in Henrico in 2022 compared to 194 vehicles last year.

Within earshot of a burbling Blackwater Creek, a historical highway marker honoring Josiah Holbrook, an educator and founder of the American lyceum movement, was unveiled Thursday near the spot where Holbrook lost his life studying what he loved.

John Morse, 55, dies in early morning incident; driver Lindzi Jo Crane, 28, also charged with involuntary manslaughter.

A Spotsylvania man has been arrested in connection with an incident earlier this month in which he allegedly shot at three teenage siblings who had mistakenly driven into his driveway, police said.

A former teacher in Stafford County pleaded guilty to three felony charges Monday for an illegal online relationship he had with a Texas teenager.

Guns, cash and cocaine also taken in pair of recent investigations, search warrants by Sheriff's Office and Virginia State Police SWAT.

As four county deputies arrived and approached the house on Pine Valley Drive, the person opened fire on them from a wooded area in what the sheriff's department called an ambush-style attack.

A wave of retirements is rearranging Virginia's public finance agencies, taking decades of institutional knowledge from one of the most stable, least conspicuous operating arms of state government.