In a recent taping of Kentucky Newsmakers with Bill Bryant, Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles announced his run for governor on the Republican ticket.
Daniel Cameron's comments Sunday on WKYT-TV’s Kentucky Newsmakers program add more suspense to the evolving GOP competition to pick a challenger to Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear.
Some Kentucky lawmakers express worry over the direction the economy is heading as others claim the economy is showing signs of progress in the midst of the pandemic
Senate Democrats say it’s important to pass federal legislation to ensure each person’s right to vote. Republican senators say bills have been passed to extend voting rights and the power of changing voting laws should remain at the state level.
Republican Congressman Morgan Griffith says he will run for re-election in the 9th district. That announcement came Tuesday afternoon, the same day the Virginia Supreme Court placed his residence in the 6th district with incumbent Congressman Ben Cline.
Governor Ralph Northam is proposing a 10% pay raise for Virginia teachers over the next two years. Northam outlined his plan during a visit to the Roanoke Valley Monday.
Representative Brett Guthrie (K-02-R) sat with WBKO News this week to discuss a number of topics including the bipartisan Infrastructure Bill he voted against, the divided Build Back Better Bill, paid family leave and a concern brought up by local bankers regarding new reporting of deposits over a certain threshold.
Glenn Youngkin says he's eager for January 15th to arrive. During his recent visit to Roanoke, Youngkin described the transition that's under way, and shared a glimpse of what's ahead.
The bill is modeled off of Alec’s law, a law in Minnesota named after a young man who died from rationing his insulin. Alec went into diabetic ketoacidosis, putting him in a diabetic coma and then later dying from high blood sugar.
More than 1.1 million Virginians have already cast ballots, a figure that could make up a third of the total vote, and break records for an off-year election. And WDBJ7 Political Analyst Bob Denton will be watching closely on Election Night to see who is voting where.
Linwood Holton was Virginia’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction and a crusader against racial discrimination, according to the Associated Press.
Members of Virginia’s redistricting commission have failed to agree on new maps for General Assembly or Congressional districts. As a result, the task now falls to the Virginia Supreme Court.
Lundergan, who owns a number of businesses in and around Lexington, had previously served as a state representative and served two terms as the chair of the Kentucky Democratic Party.
Federal prosecutors argued in court documents filed Thursday that a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals correctly ruled last month that the government had proven its case against Dylann Roof, despite his protestations on several points.
Congressman Jeff Duncan, who represents South Carolina’s Third Congressional District, is calling for President Joe Biden’s impeachment over his handling of Afghanistan.
The investigation is yet another liability for the embattled attorney general, who is facing a years-old criminal case, a separate, newer FBI investigation, and a Republican primary opponent who is seeking to make electoral hay of the various controversies.
President Joe Biden has nominated the sheriff of one of the nation’s most populous counties to lead the agency that deports people in the country illegally.
The State Department has ordered a significant number of its remaining staff at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul to leave Afghanistan as the military steps up the pullout of American troops from the country.
U.S. officials found no evidence that foreign actors changed votes or otherwise disrupted the voting process in last November’s presidential election, according to government reports Tuesday affirming the integrity of the contest won by President Joe Biden.
