RICHMOND, Va. -- Virginia's activist conservative attorney general has won the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination by acclamation. At the GOP...

By Gary Robertson RICHMOND, Va., May 17 (Reuters) - The most nail-biting U.S. governor's race this year is centering on whether a Tea ...

Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the political arm of the national family planning provider, launched a series of web ads on Wednesday that aim to keep...

In the dark arts of political campaigns known as oppo research, the most basic tools of the trade include campaign finance reports, arrest records, la...

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has an early edge over former DNC chair Terry McAuliffe in Virginia's 2013 gubernatorial race, according to a...

Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling has a hard time eating lunch in public these days. Lately, he says, people keep coming up to him and asking about the governor'...

Terry McAuliffe and Ken Cuccinelli are running dead even in Virginia's 2013 gubernatorial race, according to a poll released Wednesday by Quinnipiac U...

Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican State Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli are locked in a competitive race still taking shape for Virginia's gover...

As the only two states that elect their governors in the year following presidential elections, New Jersey and Virginia have exhibited a clear pattern...

Bill Bolling, ever the loyal Republican lieutenant, says he never foresaw the ascendancy of party rival and tea party hero Ken Cuccinelli that would ...

Terry McAuliffe announced Thursday that he plans to run for Virginia governor in 2013. In an email to supporters, the former Democratic National C...

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell signaled Tuesday that he is still weighing whether his state will opt out of the Medicaid expansion created by President B...

Virginia is for drones. Or rather, since drones are good for fighting insurgents in Afghanistan, they must be good for policing Virginia. That ...

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) is creating a campaign committee to run for governor, according to a news release. "I am running for ...

WASHINGTON -- Top Democratic officials say Democratic National Committee Chair Tim Kaine is “increasingly likely” to announce a run for the Virgin...

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell (R) has followed through on plans laid out by former Gov. Tim Kaine (D) to eliminate erectile dysfunction prescription...

The GOP driven by personal instincts, political leanings, history, demographics, and raw political necessity will do what it has done for decades, and more times than not successfully.

Why would a modern politician, well aware of the impact that announcing "Confederate Heritage Month" would have on not only his constituents but the media-blogosphere as well, do such a thing?

"Slavery is a moral evil in any society...more so to the white than to the black." -Robert E. Lee, Virginia The magnolia trees and white-columned b...

If McDonnell had not wanted to be incendiary, if he had not wanted to evoke an opposition to the idea of celebrating black equality, then he could have proclaimed "Civil War History Month."