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Triumph for Gov. Tim Kaine: Smoking is banned in most restaurants and bars in the Commonwealth starting December 1. It's an amazing victory for Virginia non-puffers in this state famous for those amazing tobacco auctions where auctioneers for decades held the house spellbound when they spewed a semi-intelligible auction yodel -- with the punch ...

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will unveil its 150-million dollar expansion at the grand opening May 1, 2010.

Housing Virginia has announced it will publish a quarterly Housing Affordability Index for the state starting in 2010.

AAA Mid-Atlantic expects more Virginians on the highways this Thanksgiving weekend.

Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated _ beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.

This week, West Virginia celebrated one of the most significant and monumental milestones in our state and nation's history, as U.S. Sen.

Police say a married couple in southwestern Virginia has been found dead in an apparent murder-suicide. Washington County Sheriff's authorities told the Bristol Herald Courier that deputies responded to a call for help early Saturday.

Virginia's job market improved last month as the number of Virginians out of work declined.

A 30-113. Powers and duties of Panel. The powers and duties of the Panel shall be applied and used only in relation to members of the respective house of the General Assembly for which it is created.

The group that will manage Fort Monroe after the Army leaves wants sections of the post to be designated as a unit of the National Park Service.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine requested federal disaster assistance Friday for localities in Virginia that suffered damage from the Nora easter that occurred November 11 through 15.

Virginians are taking home less pay, spending less in stores and still are getting hit on their investments, new state tax-collection statistics show.

One person is dead and at least one more suffered minor injuries after Miley Cyrus ' tour bus crashed and flipped onto its side in Virginia this morning.

Sixty percent of Mexicans living in Virginia are actually American citizens. Mexicans living in Virginia also are more likely to have a job than Virginians overall.

Below is a press release from the Virginia Department of Health on the upcoming statewide smoking ban: VDH COMMISSIONER ASKS VIRGINIANS TO SUPPORT THE COMMONWEALTH BREATHE EASY CHALLENGE To celebrate the upcoming ban on smoking in restaurants, Virginia's Health Commissioner today called on Virginians to show their support for the new law and local ...

Virginia lawmakers learned today that they have a $3.5 billion hole to fill in the next two-year budget as well an estimated $209 million shortfall in the current spending plan.

A bankruptcy trustee says claims have been filed for 154 people who say they were sickened by a salmonella outbreak traced to a Virginia peanut company.

Civil rights organizations are asking Gov. Timothy M. Kaine to sign an executive order restoring the rights of nearly 300,000 felons before he leaves office in January.

On a slow Friday in March of 1980, then-Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd saw his granddaughter and her schoolmates in the spectators' gallery and decided to give them a lesson with a lengthy impromptu speech on the history of the Senate.

Virginia transportation officials are moving hundreds of millions of dollars from secondary and urban road projects to higher priority Interstate and primary highways.