Gov. Timothy M. Kaine will propose boosting the titling tax on car sales and car registration fees statewide for road upkeep.

The patrons at Champps, an upscale restaurant and bar chain, were eating ribs and drinking beer on a recent Saturday when customer Bruce Jackson stood up and made an announcement: He was armed, and so were dozens of other patrons.

Governor Tim Kaine says a total of 85 jobs are headed to Page and Greensville counties with the expansion of two companies in those areas.

Lack of funding has stalled a massive forensic project aimed at clearing people wrongfully convicted of serious crimes.

Don’t be fooled by the Federal Transit Administration’s recent U-turn on the Dulles Rail project. It doesn’t change the flawed fundamentals of this $5 billion-plus mega-pork project, designed to benefit wealthy Tysons Corner landowners and their political allies at the expense of taxpayers and commuters. Dulles Rail will not reduce traffic in Northern Virginia, as the project’s own environmental studies attest. It will actually increase congestion in and around Tysons, thanks to higher densities approved by the Fairfax Board of Supervisors in connection with the project. It’s no exaggeration to say Tysons Corner will suffer perpetual gridlock once the Dulles Rail and its parallel developments are completed. Every tax dollar spent on Dulles Rail is a tax dollar that should have been used to reduce congestion on the Washington region’s roads.

Twenty-five of the state's most influential business lobbying groups are backing new statewide taxes for highway upkeep and repair.

Governor Timothy Kaine will speak at a service to memorialize fallen Virginia police officers.

Local and state agencies have returned more than $8 million of $24 million in refunds of unconstitutional taxes, but there are already signs taxpayers will have trouble getting all their money back.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mark Warner ratcheted up his campaign Monday, promising a gradual exit from Iraq and battling expectations supporters and political professionals called unrealistic.

The state better known for basketball than barnstorming is witnessing politics at its most frenzied this weekend as the race to Indiana's primary and the Democratic presidential nomination reaches a fevered pitch.