Governor Youngkin sends two Virginia water rescue teams to help flood recovery in Texas… Conservationists launch a new river otter monitoring project on the Rivanna River in Albemarle County… In this election year, we compare the major parties’ different approaches to crime….

Federal cuts in food assistance are having a big impact in Virginia… President Trump’s focus on rounding up undocumented immigrants could reopen closed prisons… Some Virginia counties share data from roadside cameras with federal authorities….

Five people, including three children, are wounded in a late Independence Day shootout in Charlottesville… Staunton asks for public input on a flood resiliency plan… Even as federal funding gets cut, Virginia increases money to help farmers protect the Chesapeake Bay….

New ICE data reveal more details about the undocumented immigrants being held in Farmville’s detention facility... One Charlottesville administrator is out, and the department he oversaw is absorbed by a different one... Jeff Schapiro discusses the history of statewide officials holding off on a run for governor, and instead running for reelection, as is Attorney General Jason Miyares....

The federal lawsuit brought by Shenandoah County students and the NAACP against the county school board gets its first evidence review hearing… Virginia’s attorney general opens a criminal investigation into the whereabouts of two baby giraffes missing from the Natural Bridge Zoo… Governor Youngkin insists those being removed from Virginia in cooperation with ICE are violent criminals, but the data tell a different story….

Nearly 100 tires are illegally dumped along the Middle River in Augusta County… We profile one Staunton family who fled violence in their home country, and whose dad is now in ICE detention… Republican candidates for statewide office hold their first unity event….

UVa’s faculty demands a meeting with the board of visitors to condemn the government pressure that led to President Ryan’s resignation… We have a profile of John Reid, the first openly gay candidate to run for statewide office in Virginia… On this first day of a new fiscal year, many new laws in Virginia have to do with moms….

UVa students and Virginia politicians react to Friday’s sudden resignation of UVa President Ryan under pressure from the Trump administration… Residents gather in Charlottesville to protest Trump’s immigration policies… As Trump goes after birthright citizenship, Virginia's attorney general pushes back on questions about his mother's citizenship status….

DoJ officials call for UVa’s president to resign… The chair of Augusta County’s board of supervisors explains why they canceled a Pride event… As the governor heads to Iowa to test the presidential waters, politics analyst Jeff Schapiro considers the recent history of Virginia governors running for president….

Cut fiber lines in North Carolina caused this week’s outage in the Charlottesville area… Virginia's unemployment rate rises… A hospital advocate says the Republican spending bill could hit Virginia’s hospitals hard….