Opinion

The Virginia senator cites a legal argument first advanced by a conservative publication that the president’s authority to appoint top prosecutors in that district has expired and that any further appointments must come from the judges.

Circuit Judge Christopher Russell found Gretchen Mogensen in contempt of court for failing to notify the state that the giraffes had been born.

A century ago this month, the Navy’s most famous airship, the USS Shenandoah, crashed. The fatal plunge was in Ohio, but the Virginia connections go well beyond its name.

We really don’t know much about either candidate, so here’s the best/worst scenario for each.

A statue of civil rights hero Barbara Johns will be unveiled later this fall to stand in the U.S. Capitol.

There is no — repeat, no — proposal to put a nuclear facility in the county just west of Richmond. However, the county has proposed zoning for a technology district that would allow a small one. This could be the start of a trend.

The U.S. Economic Development Administration has been a key partner in economic development in Southwest Virginia, but now, Congress is considering deep cuts to the agency’s budget and the president has proposed eliminating it entirely.

The coach’s contract will likely take him past the date at which schools can exit the ACC at the lowest rate. That may trigger a national round of musical chairs as conferences reconfigure themselves for better TV contracts.

In wanting to micromanage U.S. attorneys, Trump is challenging political customs. In demanding that certain critics be prosecuted, he is challenging the American legal system.

We must find a solution in the present to address the growing demand that we are seeing in the present. That solution is the responsible deployment of Solar and Battery Storage.