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A group of Rockingham County students is vowing a lengthy fight over the school board’s recent decisions… A trial date is set for the former UVa student accused of murdering three of his schoolmates in 2022… In the General Assembly, the governor’s tax proposal fails its first test, but another change to the tax code to help lower income families advances….

We go into the field (and stream) to learn how government and nonprofit agencies assess the health of our local waterways… Senator Creigh Deeds hopes that Virginia law will help provide hope for families threatened with separation by the Trump administration… Governor Youngkin selects September 9th for a special election to fill the seat of the late Representative Gerry Connolly….

Governor Youngkin offers an optimistic view of Virginia’s finances, but some lawmakers are skeptical… A group of professors call on state lawmakers to defend college DEI initiatives against the Trump administration… We have an exit interview with Michael McKee, stepping down as head of the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank after more than a decade….

Dangerous heat and humidity settle into our area… Protesters gather in downtown Harrisonburg to oppose the ongoing violence between Israel, Gaza and Iran, just hours before President Trump orders airstrikes on Iran… Unless amendments to Trump’s massive spending and tax bill are made, federal cuts to Medicaid would have a significant impact on Virginia’s health care system….

Virginia’s ACLU sues ICE for allegedly detaining young people unlawfully at Farmville’s detention center and elsewhere...Meanwhile, Albemarle County’s Circuit Court Clerk says recent detentions at the courthouse by ICE agents have a chilling effect on court attendance...The Roanoke Times and Richmond Times-Dispatch will eliminate their Monday print editions....

Today is primary day, and among the Republican seats up for grabs is the Sixth District, where incumbent Representative Ben Cline faces a challenger… A new study finds that most public school districts in Virginia have still not financially recovered from the Great Recession… Grab your walking stick, WMRA’s Randi B. Hagi takes us for a hike in Virginia’s newest state park, near Woodstock….

One abortion provider along Virginia’s border with Tennessee will move into the Old Dominion in order to continue providing services, but one Republican state senator has already announced legislation that would outlaw abortion in Virginia… Governor Youngkin’s order requiring state employees to return to the office is adding to tensions at the Department of Health… A flour mill in Nelson County gets state money to boost infrastructure for locally sourced food….

The mother of the six-year-old who shot his teacher in Newport News faces prison time… Fear of crime is often used by politicians to score points with voters, but long-term crime statistics tell a different story… Now that the Air Pollution Control Board has voted to remove Virginia from RGGI, Full Disclosure’s Roben Farzad shares his perspective about what that means for energy providers, consumers -- and the economics of climate change…..

The FBI says it has solved the 1996 case of a brutal double murder of two young women in Shenandoah National Park… Excessive heat is combining with a “flash drought” in Virginia this weekend, with almost no rain relief expected anytime soon… The big political story this week was Tuesday’s primary, but also, the General Assembly will need a do-over after deadlocking on the issue of military educational benefits, and Jeff Schapiro reviews the week….

Rockingham County’s school board expresses its intention to follow Governor Youngkin’s directive to do more against antisemitism... As we enter hurricane season, the governor says Virginia is prepared, despite Trump administration cuts to FEMA... After DHS named Trump-friendly Augusta County as one of many on its list of “sanctuary jurisdictions,” a national sheriff’s association complains and the list is taken down….