Take a look at this week's top VPM News stories.

Officials spoke at the annual State of the County address.

The $75 million program will build up to 5,000 housing units near large employers.

Updated Dec. 6: The committee met to discuss out-of-state schools.

Abortion, same-sex marriage, voting rights proposals head to full House vote in January.

How the city is trying to turn its oldest trees into new resources.

The super-producer whose beats moved the boundaries of Top 40 radio is chasing a new revolution: digital superstars and the erasure of artistic process as we know it.

Americans across the political spectrum like Medicaid and think it should get more funding, not less, according to a new poll from health research organization KFF.

On Tuesday, Virginia holds its primary election. The contest is a barometer for how Virginians, and maybe Americans, feel about the Trump administration ahead of the 2026 midterms.

On Morning Edition, former Secret Service agent Bill Gage and Rep. Hillary Scholten, D-Mich., assesses how elected officials will protect themselves from political attacks after a shooter killed a Minnesota state lawmaker and wounded another.

The nonprofit group Partnership for Public Service has named David Lebryk, former fiscal assistant secretary at the Treasury Department, as federal employee of the year.