The Latest Breaking News from Virginia

Welcome to the Thursday, June 22, Brew. 

Virginia's attorney general says a wild animal trainer featured in the popular Netflix series “Tiger King” has been convicted of wildlife trafficking

A historic number of state lawmakers were ousted in this week’s Virginia primary, which featured about four dozen legislative races that set the parties’ slate of candidates for what will be a hard-fought general election

An unresponsive business jet that flew over the nation’s capital had plunged into a Virginia mountain at a high velocity before it burst into flames

A new monument has been crafted in Virginia to commemorate the historically black neighbourhood destroyed in 1941 for the construction of the Pentagon

Reform-minded incumbent Prosecutor Buta Biberaj has won her Democratic primary over challenger Elizabeth Lancaster in Virginia

Former state legislator Lashrecse Aird has defeated incumbent Democratic Sen. Joe Morrissey in a closely watched primary election nomination contest in Virginia that centered on abortion rights

All three candidates running in the June 20 Democratic primary election for Virginia House of Delegates District 15  — Laura Jane Cohen (D), Eric Schmidt (D), and Henri’ Thompson (D)  — completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey. These survey responses allow voters to hear directly from candidates about what motivates them to…

Welcome to the Tuesday, June 20, Brew. 

It's nearly been two years since Virginia Democrats lost the governor's office and the House to the GOP. Before attempting a comeback this fall, they must first survive Tuesday's expensive primaries.

RICHMOND, Va. — Although a new Virginia law requires schools to inform parents when sexually explicit materials are used in the classroom, some districts are using that law as the basis to go further and remove certain books from schools altogether.