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Virginia drivers get a break from most work zones and lane closures during the busiest travel time of the year... Tuesday’s rain gave a big boost to firefighters battling the Matts Creek Wildfire, but burn bans remain in effect in the Valley and Shenandoah National Park... An annual event the day before Thanksgiving honors the bond between early Virginia colonists and the local tribes who have inhabited the region for thousands of years....

Teachers, administrators and the community confront increasing levels of violence among students at Charlottesville High School… Along with the late fall holidays, the respiratory virus season has arrived… Governor Youngkin prepares his budget to send to lawmakers next month….

An Augusta County deputy is charged with malicious wounding and assault after a pursuit of a suspect who was later hospitalized… With Democrats in control of the legislature, and a Republican still in the governor’s office, Jeff Schapiro takes a look at what we might expect from Virginia’s government next year….

Fall fire season is winding down in Virginia, with just one blaze still burning... We have a preview of next year’s General Assembly session, with Democrats in charge... A national nurses shortage is being felt in Virginia....

Augusta and Frederick counties are the latest to lift this fall’s burn bans... Gambling will be one of the many topics of conversation when the General Assembly returns to Richmond next month... The governor proposes a giant new pro sports facility for northern Virginia, and Jeff Schapiro joins us to talk about that and more in state politics....

Several grade school students in Amherst are sickened after ingesting a substance that tested positive for fentanyl… An Augusta County deputy is placed on administrative leave after video shows him tackling a man… When the General Assembly reconvenes next month, one of the items on the agenda would require that businesses offer five paid sick days every year….

Charlottesville’s City Council passes a new zoning plan, Richmond launches a powerful surveillance network, and the General Assembly will debate whether tax dollars should go to sports venues.

A shooting in Strasburg on Sunday, the effect of holiday celebrations on air and water quality, and ski resorts in the Blue Ridge and Allegheny mountains are open for the winter season.

Four Virginia prisons will close next year; Charlottesville’s Police Civilian Oversight Board has an opening, and new technology to help crack down on automobile noise might be coming to Virginia.

2.7 Million Virginians will be on the highways this week; two federal grants totaling a billion dollars will expand passenger railroads in the Commonwealth, and the current Virginia governor wants to reduce taxes while giving teachers a raise that’s less than one-third this year’s rate of inflation.