Legislative efforts to prevent gun violence often end in partisan disagreement.

But Michael Pope has this story about a bipartisan effort.

Lawmakers in Richmond are considering a bill aimed at preventing abuse of animals.

Michael Pope has the story.

Six years ago, the FDA approved a new treatment for the symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease, using focused sound waves to destroy tissue at a very specific spot in the brain.  

Today doctors are experimenting with focused ultrasound to treat many other conditions, and the Focused Ultrasound Foundation in Charlottesville hopes to accelerate that work.  

Sandy Hausman has an update on the promise of this medical breakthrough.

They say George Washington hunted with hounds in Virginia when the nation was founded.

But as the Commonwealth’s largest farms get cut into smaller parcels, modern hound hunting is running headlong into property rights advocates who say they’ve had enough.

Brad Kutner has more from Richmond. 

Twelve states and the District of Columbia have paid family medical leave programs for employees, but not Virginia.

Democrats in the House and Senate are hoping to change that.

Brad Kutner has more from Richmond. 

With more people renting whole houses or apartments through online services like Airbnb, communities are imposing lodging taxes on them. 

Virginia requires those services to report monthly on revenues for each property, but the biggest player in the business has refused to comply as Sandy Hausman reports.

Rivers have played a central part in human history – meandering through communities carrying people and goods, replenishing soil for farming and sometimes forcing residents to leave flooded homes and businesses. 

At the University of Virginia, two scholars from very different disciplines, are hoping to better understand why rivers move the way they do – then interpreting data in a whole new way. 

Sandy Hausman has that story.

There’s new polling to digest as the Presidential election draws near and the next governor’s election takes shape.

Jeff Schapiro, political columnist at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and Michael Pope recap the week in politics and state government.

Roanoke College will start a new program spanning science, business and public policy.

David Seidel has more on the new Cannabis Studies major.

It’s been a cold week in Virginia, but the legislative action at the General Assembly has been heating up.

Jeff Schapiro, political columnist at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and Michael Pope recap the week in politics and state government.

Members of the Virginia General Assembly have already legalized possession of marijuana.

Now, as Michael Pope tells us, lawmakers are trying to figure out a way to have a marketplace.

The latest special exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts features never-before-seen work from famous photographer Dawoud Bey.

It’s called Elegy and is described as a poem to the ancestors.

Mallory Noe-Payne has more. 

Governor Glenn Younkin has a number of tax-related requests in his budget proposal.

But his pitch is already facing pushback from legislators and independent analysts.

Brad Kutner has more.