Now that Democrat R. Creigh Deeds has closed his gap in the polls with Republican Bob McDonnell to single digits, it’s time for Deeds to make his case to Virginia voters, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said yesterday.

Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and 2008 presidential candidate John McCain are coming to Virginia to help their parties’ candidates for governor.

The race for governor continues to tighten, according to a new survey.

Bob McDonnell, the Republican nominee for governor, insisted yesterday that he can raise money for transportation without raising taxes or taking money that now goes to education.

Democrat R. Creigh Deeds has drawn within 4 percentage points of Republican Bob McDonnell among likely voters, according to a Washington Post poll released yesterday.

Sen. Max Baucus on Wednesday released the much-awaited Senate version of an American health-system remake - a landmark $856 billion, 10-year measure that starts a rough ride through Congress without visible Republican backing.

The lone Republican on the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors announced Monday that he is running for the GOP nomination to challenge U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello, D-Ivy.

Operatives with knowledge of the NRA’s decision confirmed the endorsement on the condition of anonymity because no official announcement had been made.

Republicans and Democrats are attacking each other over taxes and electricity rates in Virginia’s race for governor.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate R. Creigh Deeds came to Richmond yesterday to talk about college education — and couldn’t resist the chance to grade Republican nominee Bob McDonnell’s controversial thesis.

Bradley Rees, a candidate for the Republican nomination to run for Congress from the 5th District in 2010, was convicted Wednesday of illegally possessing concealed weapons.

Nearly 600 state employees will be laid off and state-supported colleges and universities will have state funding cut up to 15 percent in new budget reductions.

A scandal involving phony letters sent by a Washington “grassroots” lobbying firm to three members of Congress is prompting calls for new laws to outlaw such deceptive tactics.

Laurence Verga has formally launched his campaign for the GOP nomination to challenge U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello, D-Ivy, in next year’s mid-term congressional race.

By the time U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello arrived at his district office in downtown Charlottesville on Tuesday, the raucous activists from both sides of the health care debate already had begun yelling at each other.

Thrown on the defensive over his conservative origins, Republican gubernatorial nominee Bob McDonnell is disavowing views on working women, gays and divorce in a paper he wrote as a law student two decades ago at the university founded by religious broadcaster Pat Robertson.

Bob McDonnell, a Republican now running for governor, wrote in a graduate school thesis 20 years ago that Republicans must shield traditional, heterosexual two-parent families from the effects of abortion, feminism, welfare, “cohabitators, homosexuals or fornicators.”

Creigh Deeds, the Democratic candidate for governor, is hot and bothered—and it has nothing to do with the August weather.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said today his budget team is well into its work to cut the fiscal 2010 budget to balance spending as the state faces an expected $1.5 billion revenue shortfall.

Bob McDonnell says if he’s elected governor, he’ll cut his own pay, a nod to the tough fiscal times the state is in.

Determining who has responsibility for mental-health patients in local emergency rooms has gotten the attention of more than law-enforcement and health-care providers.

Speaker of the House William J. Howell, R-Stafford, called today for the House Ethics Advisory Panel to investigate the conduct of Del. Phillip A. Hamilton, R-Newport News.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine today projected a $1.2 billion decline in state revenues for the fiscal year ending next June 30.

A congressional investigation has turned up yet another fraudulent letter sent to U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello, this one forged to appear as if it was sent by the Senior Center in Albemarle County in opposition to climate change legislation.

Governor Timothy M. Kaine today released the state’s official revenue forecast in a speech to the Joint Money Committees. Here are his prepared remarks.

Legislative leaders say Gov. Tim Kaine plans to cut Virginia’s cash-strapped budget by about $1.3 billion.

A change of guard at the state’s embattled info-tech department could come as soon as Thursday.

RALEIGH - In the halls of the General Assembly, the phrase “tax reform” is like a mantra.

Two more local Republicans have announced their intention to challenge U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello, D-Ivy, in next year’s mid-term congressional election.

Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., the first member of Congress to visit Myanmar in more than a decade, arrived in the military-ruled country’s remote capital Friday to meet junta leaders, officials said.