Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine took 14 trips on Democratic National Committee business the first six months of 2009, according to information from the State Police obtained Tuesday after an Associated Press request made under Virginia’s Freedom of Information law.

Everyone’s on board for high-speed rail in the Richmond region. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine led a community pep rally yesterday to boost faster rail service as a top priority as the region and Washington suburbs grow toward each other on the Interstate 95 corridor.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine today is expected to call a special session of the General Assembly to deal with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that some commonwealth’s attorneys fear could jeopardize prosecutions.

Bob McDonnell, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, picked up the support of one of Gov. Timothy M. Kaine’s largest donors.

Virginia officials are seeking a change in federal law that would allow the private sector to run the state’s interstate rest areas.

Even though agency rules say he shouldn’t have, the state’s acting computer czar paid a roughly $13 million bill that his ousted predecessor disputed.

Consumer advocates yesterday praised a new program launched by Virginia to help state workers get emergency, short-term loans without having to turn to payday lenders.

He didn’t ask for this job. The job of chairman of the Democratic National Committee, that is. Now that he has it, six months later, even an outsider might understand why Gov. Timothy M. Kaine was somewhat reluctant to take it in the first place.

Virginia will join 13 other states and the District of Columbia that have banned texting while driving when the new law and hundreds of others legislators passed this winter take effect Wednesday.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine is refusing to turn over to the Republican Party of Virginia records of his out-of-state travel as chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

If you want to know where Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine is, just ask him. That’s the message Kaine delivered yesterday to state Republican critics who say he has been sneaking off to tend to his high-profile, part-time job as chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

In the coming week, hundreds of high school age boys will descend on Lynchburg to get a crash course on government at the local and state level.

The state’s revenue numbers from May are in, and things are worse than officials thought they would be.

The Kaine administration put a hopeful face on a 9.3 percent revenue plunge in addressing legislative budget writers Tuesday.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine told area business leaders Wednesday that good financial times lie ahead for the commonwealth, but warned leaders not to get too cheery.