One-third of Virginia's watermen have offered to sell their licenses back to the state under a buyback program intended to ease pressure on the Chesapeake Bay

The cousin of the suspected Fort Hood shooter says family members have met with the FBI and answered all their questions.

U.S. mosques fearful of a backlash after the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas are stepping up security.

Monticello's visitor center has gained certification for environmentally sound building design, construction and operation.
 

Virginia's largest electric utility agreed to a proposed settlement Thursday to return nearly $400 million to customers and reduce monthly electric bills.

Virginia has recycled nearly 47,000 pounds of empty plastic pesticide containers this year.

The Virginia Department of Forestry's online tree seedling store is now open.

At the height of the nationwide salmonella outbreak nearly a year ago, FBI agents raided two peanut plants and carried away boxes of evidence. FDA inspectors

Gov. Timothy Kaine will return to teaching at the University of Richmond after his four-year term ends in January.

A Maryland imam who once led the mosque attended by the suspected Fort Hood, Texas, shooter says the Army psychiatrist never seemed to be an extremist.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations is condemning the shootings at Fort Hood, though it's not known whether the shooter was Muslim.

A spokeswoman says the Marine Corps Base at Quantico, Va., is at "threat condition alpha" after shootings in Fort Hood, Texas, that left 12 people dead and 31

The attorney general's office is asking Virginia regulators to order the state's largest utility company to either cut rates or offer customers a refund.

Fourteen people have been charged with illegally purchasing 77 million contraband cigarettes from undercover agents in Virginia over the last year and

The pilot of a single-engine plane has escaped serious injury after his newly bought aircraft flipped over while making a crash landing in a Hudson Valley