With this year’s state elections behind us, we can now turn our attention to next year’s races. Here are some of the lessons we need to take with us.

When it opened in 1966, it became the city’s first library “to serve all citizens” in an ongoing integration effort. Decades later, staff are living by the same slogan to help the library meet the ...

Danville City Council will consider an update to its zoning code at its regular meeting Tuesday at 7 p.m. The city overhauled its comprehensive plan last year, and is now working to do the same for ...

Increasing pay for teachers and hourly workers was one of many budget priorities discussed at a November finance committee meeting. More ideas will be gathered Tuesday before a proposed budget is ...

The maps adopted after the 2020 census, drawn by neutral experts appointed by the Supreme Court of Virginia, produced balance: some districts lean Republican, some Democratic and some remain ...

According to meeting documents, the current salary range for HVAC workers, electricians and plumbers ranges from nearly $39,300 to about $73,000. By comparison, Montgomery County’s pay for similar ...

Lt. General David Furness met with the Virginia Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee Education Subcommittee for the first time on Monday since he assumed the role of superintendent of the ...

Montgomery County Registrar Connie Viar said her office hopes to complete the recount of nearly 11,300 ballots by the evening of Dec. 12 and announce the result the same day. All of the ballots in the ...

David Botkins is a member of the State Central Committee of the Republican Party of Virginia and leads Botkins Strategies, LLC.