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While the dust from this month’s election settles, there’s plenty of looking ahead to 2025.

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

While many are preparing to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday, others are preparing for another, more somber event. 

This Sunday, November 17th, families from around the globe will hold vigils and memorials to honor the people lost due to road-related tragedies.

It’s called World Day of Remembrance. And for some Virginians, the day is a reminder to keep fighting for changes in legislation to make the streets safer for everyone.

Ian Stewart has more.

The U.S. has nearly 200 ambassadors in other countries, and when a new president takes office, some of them will likely be replaced. 

One of them is a Virginia man with a remarkable story to tell. 

Sandy Hausman spoke with him and filed this report.

The voting is over while the counting continues and the analysis of what worked and what didn’t is well underway.

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

Forty years ago, an American designer and two of his friends hosted a TED talk – the first in a series of lectures about technology, education and design at a conference center in California.  

Beginning in 1990 it became an annual event, and now it’s spreading through a collection of independent programs focused on local and regional people and issues.  

This year, TEDx hosted its first event at a Virginia prison.  Sandy Hausman has details.

Republican candidates may not have won Tuesday’s statewide races in Virginia. 

But Donald Trump’s success at the national level has Virginia Democrats looking for ways to turn the party’s luck around in the future, as Brad Kutner reports.

More than two-thirds of registered voters in Virginia have waited until Election Day to cast their ballots for president, U.S. senator, House members and some local offices.

Joe Staniunas talked to some Roanoke voters who showed up to vote today and found a mixture of anxiety and hope.

Driving a school bus is tough work—early mornings, tight schedules, navigating the roads as well as the ups and downs of the school lives and home lives of dozens of children.

In our Meet Virginia series, Christine Kueter introduces us to one driver who’s been doing it for more than 40 years.

We’re in the final days of the 2024 campaign.

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

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.