Virginia Senate

Virginia’s House of Delegates has voted unanimously to restore free college tuition for families of veterans who were killed or seriously disabled while on active duty. The 92-0 vote Friday would repeal restrictions to the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program that had been placed in the state’s annual budget earlier this year. Military families complained about the restrictions...

Virginia military families are fighting education benefits yanked from them in the state budget. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Winder has been following the story.

Virginia’s recently approved state budget changed a state program that pays in-state college tuition costs for spouses and children of servicemembers killed or severely disabled as a result of their duty. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder explains the military families say the changes are preventing some of them from receiving a promised benefit.

Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has taken final action on a last batch of bills from the year’s regular legislative session. In a statement late Friday, Youngkin said he was signing seven measures but vetoing 48. Among those he vetoed were closely watched bills that would have ended a tax break for a Confederate heritage organization and allowed small businesses...

Virginia’s Democratic-led General Assembly has passed a compromise budget plan and Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin has signed it. The plan signed Monday afternoon includes more funds for public schools, a pay bump for teachers and other government workers and no changes in Virginia’s tax policies. The compromise ended a long-running standoff between Youngkin and legislative leaders over the two-year spending...

Early voting will be available from Friday, May 3 through Saturday, June 15 at 5 p.m. at your local registrar’s office.

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The Virginia Senate has approved a bill that would allow some immigrants who have lived in the U.S. since they were young children to work as police officers or sheriff’s deputies in the state.

A Virginia Senate committee approved legislation Wednesday that would allow the possibility of a resort-style casino being built in Fairfax County. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder reports.