North Carolina officials say the catastrophic flooding and destruction from Hurricane Helene likely caused at least $53 billion in damages and recovery needs in the state.

Early voting in Roanoke City starts Friday, allowing residents to vote without needing an excuse, aiming to reduce election day lines and increase convenience.

The Palestinians have circulated a draft U.N. resolution demanding that Israel end its “unlawful presence” in Gaza and the West Bank within six months.

Sierra Leone’s president says Africa cannot wait any longer to get a bigger voice in the United Nations’ most powerful body, the Security Council.

The program offers free college tuition to families of first responders or veterans injured or killed in the line of duty.

The future of the program was unknown after the state's budget passed in May cut funding and changed the waiver process.

After years of fighting, David Kingrea is being compensated for the time he wrongfully spent in jail and on the Sex Offender Registry.

South Carolina is trading its all-male state Supreme court for an all-white one.

Virginia finally has a state budget after months of negotiations, with bipartisan efforts leading to its approval.

Liberian President Joseph Boakai has signed an executive order to create a long-awaited war crimes court to deliver justice to the victims of Liberia's two civil wars.

The General Assembly and Governor Youngkin came to an agreement Wednesday to reconvene for a special budget session in May.

Two consecutive days of action — that’s what some local convenience stores are doing to protest the Governor’s skill games amendments.

The Palestinians want the Security Council to vote later this month on their revived request for full membership in the United Nations, despite the United States reiterating that Israel and the Palestinians must first negotiate a peace agreement.

The Virginia Supreme Court reinstated a ban after they considered skill games as a form of illegal gambling.

Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has vetoed two top Democratic legislative priorities.

South Carolina has collected about $1.8 billion in a bank account over the past decade and accountants are trying to figure out where the cash came from and where it was supposed to go.

The school board is hoping more money from the state will prevent any budget-cut discussions.

Governor Glenn Youngkin is sharing his thoughts on the budget the General Assembly recently passed. Youngkin said the current budget needs a lot of work because it negatively impacts Virginians.

The United States is spearheading the first United Nations resolution on artificial intelligence, aimed at ensuring the new technology is “safe, secure and trustworthy” and that all countries, especially those in the developing world, have equal access.

The Virginia General Assembly approved the state budget over the weekend. Now it rests in Governor Glenn Youngkin's hands.

The General Assembly has adjourned after passing a two-year budget and sending over 1,000 bills to Governor Glenn Youngkin's desk.

Attorney General Jason Miyares claims a program that releases people earlier who served time is costing taxpayers more money and claims the program is dangerous.

The path to legalized recreational marijuana sales in the Commonwealth may become a reality but the chances are slim.

Farmers say they have major cost concerns about bills moving through Virginia’s General Assembly.

Education is top of mind for lawmakers as they make changes to the Virginia budget.

Two bills to legalize and regulate skill games are making their way through the Virginia General Assembly.

Who doesn’t love a restaurant made cocktail, but in the comfort of your own home? Cocktails to-go could stay in Virginia for good.

The bill is similar to legislation called 'Alyssa's Law', named after a student who was killed in the 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting

A bill is making its way through the General Assembly to make the museum in Roanoke a state agency.

A bill to help people in prison get a second chance is back in the General Assembly.

Currently, sports gambling is legal as long as the teams involved are not colleges within the commonwealth.

Newly-elected Del. Tim Griffin (R-53) says he is delivering on a campaign promise to introduce legislation banning abortion.

Halfway through his governance, Youngkin wants to keep building on the progress already made.

Lawmakers from Southwest Virginia convened in Richmond Wednesday for the opening of a new General Assembly session.

With just a couple of days until the start of Virginia’s General Assembly session, different groups are preparing their priorities.

The Virginia General Assembly session reconvenes on January 10. 10 News is working for you by speaking with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle about their legislative priorities.

Gov. Youngkin wants to lower income taxes while raising the state's sales tax.

Over 180 House bills and almost 80 Senate bills have been filed ahead of the 2024 General Assembly session.

The General Assembly goes into session January 10.

Several new laws go into effect with the start of the new year. We're breaking down the ones you should keep in mind.

A new study shows some of the flaws when it comes to Virginia’s medical cannabis market.

Pennsylvania’s highest court is deliberating whether the Legislature can proceed with its impeachment trial against Philadelphia’s elected progressive prosecutor.

Chaz Nuttycombe is gaining national attention for his state legislative election forecasts.

Chaz Nuttycombe has been predicting elections since he was 13 years old.

Every seat in New Jersey’s General Assembly is up for grabs in Tuesday’s general election.

This year's election will have every seat in the General Assembly on the ballot.

“Stop the bombs and save lives!”.

Districts for both Virginia's House of Delegates and State Senate were redrawn by an un-bias committee.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration acknowledged this week, with early voting underway, that it is working to fix an error that caused an unknown number of eligible Virginians to be removed from the voter rolls.

Montgomery County man, David Kingrea had his life flipped upside down when he was convicted of a crime he didn't commit. Now, he's fighting for justice.

The General Assembly will convene in a special session Sept. 6 to approve amendments to the current two-year budget.

Virginia lawmakers will reconvene in Richmond next week to consider a compromise General Assembly negotiators recently reached on the long-delayed state budget.

The Virginia legislators who have been leading negotiations over the months-delayed state budget say they have reached agreement on the “major components” of a compromise.

A historic number of state lawmakers were ousted in this week’s Virginia primary, which featured about four dozen legislative races that set the parties’ slate of candidates for what will be a hard-fought general election.

Canada’s foreign minister says the country is considering the expulsion of Chinese diplomats over an intelligence agency report saying one of them plotted to intimidate the Hong Kong relatives of a Canadian lawmaker.

In massive victories for Republicans, North Carolina’s newly GOP-controlled state Supreme Court has thrown out a previous ruling against gerrymandered voting maps and upheld a photo voter identification law that colleagues had struck down as racially biased.

Retailers and manufacturers will be able to exceed a two milligram THC cap as long as there is a 25:1 CBD to THC ratio.

The mayor of Baltimore has called for a summer curfew after two teenagers were shot while police were attempting to break up a large crowd of minors.

The North Carolina Supreme Court is hearing arguments again in a redistricting case it ruled on only three months ago.

The politically divided Virginia General Assembly worked through dozens of pieces of legislation, including a major energy bill and stop-gap budget bill, on Saturday as lawmakers reached the end of their regularly scheduled session without a deal on the entire state spending plan.

A bill to help people in prison get a second chance has stalled in the General Assembly.

A dozen bills revolving around transgender athletes as well as parents rights over their child's gender identity at school have died in the General Assembly.

A bill that would have allowed the sale of recreational marijuana to start next year in Virginia has failed.

Hong Kong supporters of a tough national security law imposed by China’s ruling Communist Party have set their sights on a United Nations session, drawing concern from rights advocates.

China has come in for a grilling over its human rights record as a two-day hearing opened at the United Nations human rights office.

New General Assembly funding is making way for the Craig-Botetourt scenic trail.

A proposed bill that would bar transgender student-athletes from playing on sports teams that match their gender identity has moved forward in the General Assembly.

Sage's Law would require schools to notify parents if a child's preferred gender identity is different than their biological sex.

In the wake of several high-profile shootings, some Virginia lawmakers are working to find ways to curb gun violence in Virginia.

The Safety While Accessing Technology (SWAT) education program is being talked about by lawmakers in Richmond.

Lawmakers returned to Richmond on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023, for a new General Assembly session.

Voters in the 24th District were deciding who will succeed Delegate Ronnie Campbell.

Local Delegates discuss bills ahead of the General Assembly

The pay raise plan that gives Illinois lawmakers an 18% annual salary hike started in the governor's office.

Two well-informed U.N. diplomats say a key U.N. committee has again blocked Myanmar’s military junta from taking the country’s seat at the United Nations.

A federal trial to determine whether South Carolina’s congressional maps are legal is closing with arguments over whether the state Legislature diluted Black voting power.

HJ 459 will be heard following the convening of the 2023 legislative session.

Russia has vetoed a U.N. resolution that would have condemned its referendums in four Ukrainian regions as illegal, declared that they are invalid and urged all countries not to recognize any annexation of the territory claimed by Moscow.

Virginia is expanding eligibility for free meals during the 2022-2023 school year through funding provided by the General Assembly in the state budget. Students with families at or below 185% of the federal poverty level are eligible for free meals. Previously, students from families with an income at or below 130% of the poverty level were eligible for free meals.

People are upset and want to see a change to the budget amendment that the General Assembly passed which keeps more than 500 people from getting released.

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has tapped four Republican lawmakers to draft new legislation banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy: Senator Siobhan Dunnavant, Delegate Margaret Ransone, plus local lawmakers Delegate Kathy Byron and Senator Steve Newman.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s proposed amendments to the state budget have met a mixed fate.

As gas prices continue to soar across the country, Governor Glenn Youngkin is once again pushing for a gas tax holiday to help the wallets of those in Virginia.

China and Russia have defended their vetoes of a strongly backed U.S. resolution that would have imposed tough new sanctions on North Korea.

The bipartisan $224 Billion total package includes nearly $4 Billion in tax cuts.

Here's a look at some of the stories we'll be following today as they make headlines in Southwest Virginia.

Here's a look at some of the stories we'll be following today as they make headlines in Southwest Virginia.

After months of back and forth over the state’s two-year spending budget, Virginia’s General Assembly will vote again Wednesday in Richmond. But the clock is ticking for lawmakers to reach a deal -- with the new fiscal year beginning July 1.

- A contractor working on a $25 million tunnel that will connect Virginia's Capitol to a nearby legislative office building "inadvertently" poked through the ceiling of a subterranean Capitol extension earlier this year, causing debris to fall into the visitors center cafe, a state official said.

Virginia’s General Assembly reconvened in the Capitol Wednesday, this time to review more than 100 pieces of legislation amended or vetoed by Governor Glenn Youngkin.

After decades of complaints about vetoes in the U.N. Security Council, some momentum is building behind a proposal to subject any vetoed matter to scrutiny by the world body's full membership in the General Assembly.

On Wednesday, recreational marijuana advocates joined together in Roanoke for the first-ever Cannabis Family Reunion, an expo featuring vendors, informational talks, and medical cannabis resources.

The Hotel Roanoke is getting honored in a big way.

Legislators in the General Assembly agree with this sentiment and have passed a bill saying anyone over 18 who sends a nude photo to another person over 18 without their consent can be fined $500, NBC 12 reports.

Lawmakers hope to have a deal in the upcoming weeks. They're scheduled to return later this month for a one-day veto session. A deal must be complete by July 1.

Maryland lawmakers have overridden GOP Gov. Larry Hogan’s veto of a measure to expand access to abortion in the state.

The 2022 session of the Georgia General assembly saw some bright moments of bipartisan cooperating, including a mental health overhaul.

The war in Ukraine has put a spotlight on the U.N. Security Council’s failure to stop Russia’s aggression and carry out its mandate to ensure international peace and security.