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Voters in three critical swing states, Colorado, Iowa and Virginia, disapprove by margins of 9 percentage points of the job President Barack Obama is doing, according to a Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll released this week.
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Governor Terry McAuliffe announced that the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) is accepting applications for federal grants benefitting specialty crops.
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Commercial truckers for years have been required to follow federal rules limiting their driving hours and requiring rest or sleep breaks between long periods behind the wheel.
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A project by a Virginia Tech counselor education class has led to introduction of a Good Samaritan bill in the General Assembly that would protect those seeking help for drug or alcohol overdose victims.
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UVA redshirt junior guard Malcolm Brogdon (Atlanta, Ga.) was one of 10 players named to the 2015 Allstate NABC Good Works Team®, the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) and Allstate Insurance Company announced Tuesday (Feb. 10).
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Biologists working with engineers and physicists have found a molecule they said helps determine if breast cancer cells that are resistant to antiestrogen therapy will live or die.
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The House budget proposal unveiled Sunday will include $19.8 million targeted to additional enrollment slots at Virginia schools and to increasing graduation rates.
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Dan Gecker announced Wednesday that he is running for Virginia’s 10th Senate District, an open seat encompassing parts of Chesterfield County and Richmond City, and all of Powhatan County.
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Rebecca Polan, president of Allied Realty, has been appointed to the Virginia Chamber of Commerce’s Board of Directors. As the most influential business advocacy organization in the Commonwealth, the chamber serves as the voice of the state’s business community.
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Virginia was one of the first states in the union to pass legislation mandating the human papillomavirus vaccine for sixth-grade girls in an effort to prevent cervical cancer and other types of sexually transmitted cancers.
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