About a third of state lawmakers are women, garnering 49 out of 140 seats. And of those female legislators, about two dozen ...

Since the fall of Roe v. Wade, Republican-led legislatures across the country have enacted bans or severe restrictions on ...

The arm of the Democratic Party focused on state legislative races announced its initial target map for the upcoming election ...

Depending on the maps one consults ... Western Virginians supported Abraham Lincoln, whose election spurred Virginia to secede, and they largely relied on free rather than enslaved labor to ...

The Republican president has a positive favorability rating in half of the U.S. states, according to new data.

LaTwyla Mathias, executive director at Progress Virginia: "Most of the states in this country recognize that when someone has paid their debt to society, they return to the community as full citizens, ...

Chairwoman Price and members of the committee: My name is Dr. Jonathan Madison, and I am a governance fellow at the R Street Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization.

Should Virginia ditch the longstanding practice of electing the General Assembly and the governor in odd year elections? The first odd year election in Virginia was in 1851, after a new state ...

The changes, approved by both the Virginia House and Senate unanimously this month, update the city’s charter to clarify the dates for local elections and terms, when a sitting council member must ...