Budgets and Taxes

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (236+ words) Va. (WSET) — Virginia ended the last fiscal year in a stronger financial position than expected, bringing in significantly more revenue than state officials had projected. But Gov. Abigail Spanberger is warning lawmakers not to get too comfortable. Spanberger made the…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago   (331+ words) A years-long fight over one of the most ambitious data center projects in the country has come to an end in Virginia. The data center developer QTS officially ended its plans to build a section of the planned 2,100-acre data…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (1001+ words) Jul 09, 2026 at 06:45 AM EDT Virginia has become synonymous with data centers. Home to the world's largest concentration of facilities, the state has spent years attracting billions of dollars in investment from technology companies seeking to power cloud computing, artificial intelligence,…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (347+ words) (The Center Square) – Virginia lawmakers approved Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s 14 budget amendments Monday, completing work on the state’s two-year spending plan ahead of the Wednesday's start of the new fiscal year. The Senate and the House of Delegates adopted all 14 amendments…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (425+ words) RICHMOND, Va. (WSET) — Virginia lawmakers approved a new state budget Monday after weeks of negotiations. The Senate voted 23-16 to approve Virginia’s new state budget, ending a prolonged standoff between lawmakers. During negotiations, Senate Democrats pushed to eliminate a data center…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (432+ words) RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia's state budget passed both the House and Senate Monday, ending a standoff over data center tax policy that had stalled negotiations for months. The two-year spending plan includes 4% raises for teachers, 3.5% raises for state employees, higher standard…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (889+ words) Over the past five years, several Virginia localities have generated just $119 million total from a targeted sales tax to fund school construction and maintenance, fueling calls to expand the tax statewide. When lawmakers first established the tax in 2021, a state…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (291+ words) RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia lawmakers are back at the Statehouse Monday, prepared to take a final vote on the state’s budget after months of internal disagreements. The deadline to get an approved spending plan to the governor’s desk is June 30, now…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (313+ words) Virginia budget negotiators are nearing a deal to ensure that the state will have a new two-year spending plan in place on July 1, but they haven’t completed work on how they would tax data centers to generate additional money to…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (50+ words) State Sen. Louise Lucas continued her statewide listening tour on data centers with a stop in Virginia Beach, where residents, labor leaders and lawmakers discussed... State Sen. Louise Lucas continued her statewide listening tour on data centers with a stop…...