West Virginians would no longer be guaranteed the right to public hearings on legislation under new rules proposed by the House of Delegates leader last week.

Lawmakers on a Virginia Senate committee have greenlit a proposal to legalize and regulate adult-use marijuana sales in the ...

A centerpiece of a bipartisan push to strengthen Virginia’s oversight of data centers failed in a early General Assembly test ...

Speaker says change from Steele is 'recognition of his need to spend more time focused on matters outside the Capitol ...

Legislation to set up a regulated retail market for marijuana passed a first General Assembly hurdle on the same kind of party line vote on the essentially identical bill that Gov. Glenn Youngkin ...

Virginia Democrats are hoping to pass a bill to make abortion more accessible in the third trimester under specific situations.

More than 1,000 bills are filed for General Assembly consideration each year. In this weekly series, the Mercury takes a look ...

Republicans are ramping up opposition to Democrat-led efforts to protect abortion and contraception access, claiming the ...

President Biden says he believes the amendment has met the requirements to be enshrined in the Constitution. Its history has ...

You can expect that reproductive rights will be a ballot issue in the 2025 Virginia elections, and to that end, we have House ...

The Biden administration’s website devoted to reproductive and abortion rights quietly disappeared on Friday, three days ...