Meghin Moore

Under Virginia’s 529 savings plan, families who’ve built up accounts for years to help with college savings have found out they can’t be used for technical training or other atypical four-year programs. Now, Virginia lawmakers want to help change that.

Madison Irving has recently finished up his fifth year as an economics and personal finance teacher at James River High School. Now, he’s running for school board.

Unless Virginia legislators take swift action, the sales tax holiday that usually occurs during the first weekend of August will soon be a thing of the past.

Many localities across Virginia are holding primary elections for state legislative and local offices on Tuesday, June 20. Here’s what you need to know to cast your ballot.

“This is one of the Democratic strongholds on the state senate map. and it needs a senator who is willing to set the pace for change in Virginia.”

This checklist will help you make sure you’re good to go to vote in June’s primary election.

Following the lead of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced that he has directed the Virginia National Guard to send 100 troops to Texas to assist with what Youngkin calls an “ongoing border crisis.”

To Del. Dan Helmer, serving in Virginia’s House of Delegates is “incredibly humbling,” and that’s why he’s running for office again. Recently, he sat down with The Dogwood to discuss everything from why he first ran for office to his love for camping in the commonwealth.

Despite being one of the seven founding states of the Electronic Registration Information Center, Virginia’s top election official has announced that the commonwealth would be withdrawing from the bipartisan, multistate partnership originally founded in 2012.

Ahead of the June primary, where incumbent Deeds is being challenged by Del. Sally Hudson in the newly redrawn state Senate District 11 – which covers parts of the city of Charlottesville, as well as Albemarle, Amherst, and Nelson Counties, and a part of Louisa County – Dogwood caught up with the state senator.