A House General Laws subcommittee endorsed a bill proposed by Del. Lee Ware, R-Powhatan, to shield the identity of people who win Virginia Lottery prizes of $10 million or more.

Taken by Portuguese slave traders, kidnapped by English pirates, and taken far from home, African arrivals to Virginia in 1619 marked the origins of U.S. slavery. Traditions EndurePainted in the ...

This came after the first meeting of the Virginia General Assembly at Jamestown in July 1619. George Washington served in the Virginia House of Burgesses for 15 years before the American Revolution.

JAMESTOWN — Jamestown Rediscovery will mark Jamestown Day, a commemoration of the establishment of James Fort more than 400 years ago, on Saturday, May 17. According to the organization, on May ...

Here’s Exhibit A that sessions at the Virginia General Assembly, dictated under a half-century-old state constitutional update, aren’t nearly long enough:Since 2000, special sessions to complete ...

One was the inaugural meeting of the General Assembly of the Virginia colony – the first elective representative body of its kind in North America. The other was the first recorded arrival of ...

The 2025 General Assembly Session is expected to last 45 days. Bills that pass in the House and Senate will head to Governor Youngkin's desk for a signature or veto.

(The Center Square) – Virginia’s General Assembly will be delayed until Monday due to a water outage in Richmond, as announced late Tuesday evening. The outage stemmed from Monday’s winter ...

Is the Virginia General Assembly taking a cue from General Motors or perhaps General Mills? On a construction fence surrounding the General Assembly Building (GAB) on Richmond’s Capitol Square is this ...

Del. Nadarius Clark, D-Suffolk, is the youngest representative in the Virginia General Assembly. The 28-year-old Hampton Roads native strives to get more young people involved in politics.