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Finance leaders in the General Assembly say they may be close to a deal on the remainder of the current two-year budget... After the dismissal of years of legal challenges, construction on the Mountain Valley Pipeline resumes... A federal judge in Charlottesville rejects a request from abortion providers to shield Virginia from any future restrictions on the drug mifepristone....

Whether it’s Canadian wildfires affecting our air quality, or more frequent and intense wildfires here in Virginia, climate change is making the problem worse… We have more details on the agreement that the General Assembly reached on the two-year budget… Virginia Tech researchers look for a way to make American trains more fuel efficient….

Signs show an uptick in COVID-19, and Virginia health officials are keeping an eye on a new variant… Less than four months after launching new air service between Charlottesville and Orlando, Avela Airlines says due to lack of demand those flights will cease next week… A UVa astronomer explains why this week’s blue moon is also a supermoon….

A guilty verdict found in a local murder case, a private company contracted by the Virginia Retirement System lets retirees’ personal information leak, and the General Assembly tries to pass amendments to the Commonwealth’s budget, a couple months late.

Child poverty in Virginia falls to a historic low, but advocates worry that the numbers may be about to spike… The U.S. Department of Agriculture awards nearly $11 million to three rural health care projects nearby, including a hospital in Bath County... Democratic Representative Abigail Spanberger may be eyeing the governor’s mansion….

The Verona-based Nexus corporation and its founders find themselves in a lot of legal trouble… The U.S. Supreme Court allows construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline to resume… In our weekly politics chat, Jeff Schapiro ponders whether the political donations of professors at UVa should be tracked….

2023 is shaping up to be the most expensive legislative election cycle in the history of the commonwealth. UVa could become the first major institution of higher education in America to publish the political donations of its faculty and staff. And the sharp spike in mortgage rates is keeping many homeowners from considering whether to put their homes on the market.

Even though Virginia cops are conducting fewer vehicle searches, they are still more likely to pull over Black and Latino drivers than White drivers… Governor Youngkin is packing the boards of universities across the state, including UVa and JMU, with dozens of new members, some of them with far right political leanings… Scientists at UVa report an intriguing discovery regarding Alzheimer’s disease….

State Police investigate the shooting death of a Rockingham County man by a sheriff’s deputy… A local couple speaks out about cluster munitions and their personal experience with the weapons… Jeff Schapiro joins us to discuss campaign finance, the state budget surplus, and a change in guidance on transgender students….

Delegate Nick Freitas aims to represent the newly drawn 62nd district, but there is a question over whether he actually lives in it… Shenandoah National Park officials see an increase in litter and pet waste in the park… Jeff Shapiro surveys the ongoing budget impasse and more in Virginia politics and government….