Many women are on the ballot in Virginia this fall... The town of New Market is developing a commissary kitchen... A team at UVA is working on a better weather forecasting system... And the Rappahannock Indian Tribe celebrates after obtaining a thousand of acres of ancestral land...

The Harrisonburg City School Board will end its involvement with Massanutten Technical Center... Dominion Energy plans to install solar panels on the roof of Richmond’s baseball stadium... Governor Glenn Youngkin supports a federal push to use National Guard Troops to aid in immigration enforcement... Data centers are becoming one of the hottest issues on the campaign trail... And a group of Harrisonburg church goers has been offering free rides to immigrants...

UVA has selected an interim president... Virginia Tech releases a study looking at helmet safety... Reactions to Virginia Commonwealth University’s decision to end gender-affirming care for minors... And president Donald Trump could endorse a candidate in Virginia’s race for governor...

George Mason University’s president will hang on to his job for now... A Henrico-based contractor has been chosen to operate a federal immigration detention center... Meanwhile, ICE agents raided a neighborhood in Southside Richmond... And affordable housing is on the ballot in Virginia...

VCU Health ceases gender-affirming care for children… Jeff Schapiro reviews the big court win for state senate Democrats and more in Virginia politics… The Trump administration's budget cuts trickle down to communities in rural Virginia….

Over opposition from some residents, Cumberland County’s board approves a large new landfill… Virginia’s farmers get access to millions in relief funding for damage from Tropical Storm Helene… A group of Mennonites from Harrisonburg talk about their visit to Palestine to learn about life under Israeli occupation and the war in Gaza….

Senate Democrats score a court victory over the governor's controversial appointments to university governing boards… We ride along with Augusta Health’s new traveling clinic… Housing construction in Virginia is leaning more towards apartments, and away from single-family homes….

Residents’ opposition in Louisa County halts construction of a massive data center, although others are going forward… The loss of federal funding is already having an effect on public radio in Virginia… A court will rule soon in a legal dispute between members of the Virginia State Senate and the heads of governing boards of three public universities, including UVa and VMI….

A man allegedly attacked several people at a Charlottesville church... Senate Democrats in Virginia are taking their fight against controversial higher-ed appointments to court... Meanwhile, lawmakers vowed to take steps to address what they see as growing political overreach in higher education... the effort to eliminate Virginia’s car tax is gaining more supporters in Richmond... and three brothers are celebrating the tenth anniversary of their central Virginia brewery and their psychedelic rock band that preceded it.

A Rockingham County school board member has been fined thousands of dollars... Virginia Democratic lawmakers defend state colleges... Winsome Earle-Sears has a new campaign manager.... the Labubu fad has made its way to Virginia... and Radio IQ politics analyst Jeff Schapiro and Michael Pope look back at this week in politics and state government