As the 2024 presidential election nears, fears of voter fraud and voting by noncitizens have dominated national dialogue.

Here in Virginia, Brad Kutner found proof of such claims is rare at best.

Court battles over Virginia election procedures are playing out.

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

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares is a facing malicious prosecution lawsuit following his failed bid to convict an election official of fraud.

Brad Kutner has more from Richmond.

The explosion of data centers in Virginia is creating a surge in demand for power.

Michael Pope reports it’s also impacting how that power is generated.

The lawsuit over Virginia’s voter roll purge, and its potential fallout, are still making headlines.

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

When floods swept across Appalachia three weeks ago during Helene, it was one of the worst natural disasters to hit the region in a generation. But flash flooding in the mountains does happen.

One example is the 2016 flood in West Virginia, which killed 23 people and destroyed more than two-thousand homes.

A Virginia Tech professor has been researching what helped communities rebuild after that flood, and why some communities are only now seeing progress.

Roxy Todd reports.

Hurricane Helene damaged about 6% of Virginia’s economy.

That’s according to an update provided Tuesday by the Commonwealth’s Secretary of Finance. 

But as Brad Kutner found out, federal aid is expected to improve the region. 

Despite a rough patch of drought, and the hit the region took from Helene, Virginia is expected to have a good, but not great, fall color season.

Jeff Bossert has more.

With less than a month to go until Election Day, Virginia’s governor is facing a federal lawsuit over removing alleged non-citizens from the voter rolls.

Michael Pope tells us purging the voter rolls has a long and complicated history in Virginia.

Early estimates say Helene cost farmers in the Commonwealth more than $139 million.

This number from the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service is a developing tally and will likely increase in the coming days.

Roxy Todd explains why some farmers are worried for the months ahead.

With early voting underway, there’s a legal challenge to Virginia’s recent purge of voter registrations.

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

It’s been almost two weeks since Helene damaged hundreds of homes across Southwest Virginia and took the lives of two people.

Roxy Todd visited Damascus and surrounding communities this week, where it could take more than a year to rebuild washed out roads and fully reopen the Virginia Creeper bicycle trail.

Old furniture can provide more than a place to sit or to store papers.

In this month’s Meet Virginia segment, Christine Kueter introduces us to a Portsmouth man who not only restores those antiques.  He goes in search of the story each one can tell.

After weeks of build-up, the candidates for U. S. Senate finally took the debate stage.

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

Republican Hung Cao and Democrat Tim Kaine met for a televised debate Wednesday night.

Michael Pope has the details what will likely be their only debate before Election Day.

Two U.S. Army veterans, Derrick Anderson on the right and Eugene Vindman on the left, squared off over the future of Virginia’s 7th Congressional District Wednesday night.

Brad Kutner has more.