State legislators have presented nearly 30 bills related to data center regulation. Gov. Abigail Spanberger has already expressed the need to make sure that the facilities’ energy costs aren’t ...

Canada and Scandinavian countries rely on extraordinary amounts of hydroelectric power, along with some wind and nuclear. The U.S. doesn’t have the natural water souces they do.

A hub in Big Stone Gap that opened in August with a mission of helping regional artisans reach residents and visitors is growing. The Bus Stop Artisan Market and Workshop at 18 E. 5th St. has space ...

Voters should expect more candidate announcements and a primary to come, the city’s Republican committee chair said.

The Buchanan County Board of Supervisors and the Buchanan County Industrial Development Authority plan to grant up to $6 million to the Appalachian School of Law to get it through a short-term ...

Capital News Service is a program of Virginia Commonwealth University’s Robertson School of Communication. Students in the program provide state government coverage for a variety of media outlets in ...

A pair of bills progressing through the Virginia General Assembly would allow battery energy storage to be built as an accessory use on land where a solar facility already has been approved.

HB 217 would prohibit the manufacture, sale, import, purchase and transfer of many semiautomatic rifles, pistols and shotguns that meet its newly expanded definition of “assault firearms.” ...

The Community Flood Preparedness Fund uses proceeds from Virginia’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to fund flood mitigation projects across the state. Many Southwest ...

Douglas Crockett, a retired attorney and pastor, has joined Adam Murphy and Joy Powers in seeking the Democratic nomination to oppose Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Salem.

The task force should also reach out to Virginia’s tech community — proposing contests, hackathons and other ways to find new tools and consumer-friendly ways to cut through bureaucratic red tape ...

The standalone private law school in Grundy has been looking at a merger with Roanoke College, but the Buchanan supervisors have a say in what happens. Here are four facts and three questions.