The bill, which still needs to pass the House of Delegates, creates the right to obtain birth control and contraception.

A vote in the Virginia State Senate on Tuesday, Jan. 28, created theatrics on the Senate floor. Senators voted on a bill that would guarantee a woman's right to contraceptives, but it ended up turning into something much bigger.

Democrats who control the Virginia Senate rejected nine of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s board appointments in a move the governor called “petty.”

RICHMOND, Va. (WDBJ) - A Virginia Senate committee has voted to “pass by indefinitely” a bill that would force accountability by American Electric Power, which operates as Appalachian Power in Virginia.

For the second year in a row, the Virginia Senate has advanced a proposal to enshrine a person's right to contraception in state law.