Sen. Barack Obama outspent Sen. John McCain 3 to 1 on television advertising in Virginia from Sept. 28 to Oct. 4, according to the Wisconsin Advertising Project.

The declining economy could force additional Virginia spending cuts of nearly $3 billion, raising the specter of deeper reductions in public services and broader layoffs.

Obama took the stage at John Tyler Community College at 10:57 after hugging Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, his longtime ally, but said little about his potential running mate, other than that Kaine “got into (politics) for the right reasons.“

RICHMOND — Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced state spending cuts of $49 million Friday, including savings from the layoffs of 18 full-time employees.

Virginia Republicans are crying foul about alleged voter registration fraud and want a state investigation.

Speaking before 125 adoring supporters at the Palmyra home of Fluvanna Board of Supervisors Chairman Marvin Moss, Mark R. Warner laid out his vision for a less partisan and more effective Washington.

In his bid to unseat longtime incumbent Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr., Democratic challenger Tom Perriello has raised more money than his Republican rival.

Although the election won’t happen for another 16 months, the three candidates in Virginia’s 2009 governor’s race are already raking in piles of campaign cash.

The Bush administration has not given legal U.S. resident Ali al-Marri an adequate opportunity to challenge his detention as an enemy combatant, a closely divided federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

That sort of campaign activity is rarely seen before Labor Day in Virginia and never in presidential elections. But with Virginia in the new role of swing state, it’s a sign of changing times that Obama and Republican John McCain are fighting it out in Virginia’s July heat.

Wednesday’s reconvened special session on transportation featured plenty of legislative drama—fiery speeches, parliamentary gamesmanship and partisan jousting.

Visiting Beaver Creek Reservoir, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine praised Albemarle County on Thursday for its conservation of farmland and forests.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine blasted GOP lawmakers in the House of Delegates during a visit to Crozet on Thursday morning, blaming them for the General Assembly’s failure to produce any new money for transportation.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced today that Virginia is awarding $8.7 million in grants to homeless shelters around the state.

The couple walked into a Norfolk courthouse on a spring day, exchanged a few words, and within 10 minutes, were seemingly husband and wife.

With lawmakers returning Monday to consider transportation funding, the state’s highway planning panel cut hundreds of new projects for lack of money Thursday.

Governor Timothy Kaine has commuted the sentence of a death row inmate with a history of mental issues to life in prison.

Two Republicans who last year headed state government’s budget-writing committees endorsed Democrat Mark Warner for Senate on Monday.

They were back-to-back governors from different parties. They don’t like each other.

Virginia’s attorney general is headed to a federal appeals court in Richmond to seek another hearing on a state law on late-term abortions.

Virginia’s economy has slowed down significantly, but it continues to grow, according to Gov. Timothy M. Kaine.

If asked to serve as Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s running mate, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said Friday that he would have a “hard time” saying no.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has a message for critics of his proposed $1.1 billion transportation plan: If you don’t like it, come up with a better idea.

Immigrant groups and officials from Maryland and Virginia are seeking $15 million to help hundreds of thousands of eligible area immigrants become citizens.

Governor Tim Kaine says he will ask lawmakers to boost the titling tax on car sales and car registration fees statewide for road upkeep.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine is calling the General Assembly into special session beginning June 23 to consider a new transportation funding package, legislators said Wednesday.

Local blogger and former Daily Progress political reporter Bob Gibson tells us that Paul Harris, a Northern Virginia Republican who served two terms in the House of Delegates from Albemarle County until 2001, has decided not to run for attorney general next year.

The No. 1 transportation priority of the business communities in Danville and Lynchburg is a 5.5-mile bypass around Charlottesville’s heavily traveled stretch of U.S. 29.

Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling said Monday that he wants to stay in his job four years longer and is giving up stated plans to run for governor in 2009.
Bolling’s decision gives Attorney General Bob McDonnell a seemingly clear shot at the GOP nomination next year while Sen. R. Creigh Deeds, D-Bath County, and Del. Brian J. Moran, D-Alexandria, vie for the Democratic Party’s nod.