Why does Virginia have odd-year elections? It's a tradition that dates back to the very first election for governor, which ...

Reporters from the NPR Network are covering the uncertainty and lapse in benefits in states across the country.

On Saturday, Indivisible Charlottesville organized a New Orleans-style funeral march on the downtown mall to mourn what they ...

Akita Prefecture has Japan's most aged population, lowest birthrate and fastest declining population. Rigid gender roles are ...

The war involving the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has created the world's largest humanitarian disaster, a leading ...

Virginians cast about 250,000 more early votes this year than in the last gubernatorial election in 2021. That year saw the ...

About 1 in 8 U.S. residents get an average of $187 a month per person in the food assistance known as SNAP. For the first ...

A new lawsuit argues the latest changes to Public Service Loan Forgiveness could exclude public servants whose organizations ...

A man wanted for multiple robberies in New York evaded state and local law enforcement near Harrisonburg on Sunday, prompting emergency alerts to be sent to local residents. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi ...

On November 1st, federal SNAP food benefits for millions of Americans were paused for the first time since the country's largest anti-hunger program began six decades ago. But one local organization ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture this spring cut funding and canceled delivery of millions of pounds of food to food banks across the country — including to Virginia.