More than 400 years after being founded on foreign investment, Virginia is still a good place for international companies to do business, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said yesterday.

On a day when the president of Iran decried Israel at a United Nations conference in Switzerland, Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine was in the Holy Land, meeting with top Israeli officials and attending a Holocaust remembrance service.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said yesterday that the only recourse to revive the unemployment insurance package defeated by the Virginia General Assembly would be to call the legislature back into session.

Of the few bills introduced this year that Tim Freilich considered “anti-immigrant,” only two cleared the General Assembly and will become law.

In the days leading up to today’s reconvened session of the 2009 General Assembly, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine made no secret of his vetoes of bills that would expand the death penalty and permit concealed weapons in bars.

The explosive issues of guns in bars and expansion of the death penalty are likely to be overshadowed by a General Assembly showdown today over Gov. Timothy M. Kaine’s plea to boost benefits for thousands thrown out of work by the economic crisis.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine yesterday pardoned two men whose rape convictions were brought into question by DNA testing in recent years.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has signed legislation to permit “Choose Life” license plates.

Kaine is asking the General Assembly to make two changes that would allow unemployed people to receive benefits even if they are looking for part-time jobs or participating in job training programs.

Millions of Virginians will see direct benefits of the federal economic-stimulus package Wednesday, as tax credits start to show up in worker paychecks and food-stamp benefits rise 13.6 percent.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine today vetoed five death penalty bills and a bill that would allow someone to carry a concealed weapon into a bar or restaurants.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has granted 55 simple pardons during the first three years of his four-year term in office, more than any of the previous nine Virginia governors.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine will sign legislation that prohibits most text messaging while driving.

It cost $12 million to purchase for preservation a 208-acre portion of the Fredericksburg Civil War battlefield.

Del. Jeffrey M. Frederick, chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia, today categorically denied charges his critics have made against him in an effort to oust him as the party chairman.