Widely criticized for failing to prevent the spread of COVID-19 that killed 200 inside the state’s three nursing homes for veterans, the Murphy administration on Wednesday outlined its plans to spend millions of dollars in improvements and create a new agency focused on veterans’ health.

The $369 billion spending plan that the Department of Veterans Affairs proposes for fiscal 2025 is “a maintenance budget” that tightens the workforce and pulls back on construction but continues to prioritize disability and health care benefits for veterans.

The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs subpanel on disability assistance and memorial affairs examined several pieces of legislation that would modify existing regulations for determining disability and indemnity payments for veterans and their survivors.

Military veterans arrive at New Beginnings of Tampa having survived war zones and months, if not years, of homelessness. But former staff and volunteers say founder Tom Atchison fostered a hostile workplace, hurling racist comments as they tried to serve the region’s most vulnerable.

A U.S. Air Force veteran who fled a charge of possessing sexually explicit images of a child told his lawyer he joined Russia’s army, and video appears to show him signing documents in a military enlistment office in Siberia.

Lawmakers sharply criticized the Department of Veterans Affairs for failing to provide a budget or keep them informed about a plan to modernize its supply chain management system that is projected to cost as much as $15 billion.

The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to begin offering up to 40,000 veterans and troops who own a home and face foreclosure a VA-backed loan — a “last resort” refinancing tool to bring down their interest rates.

It was a long journey for James Harris and Marine veteran Russ Redhead to become close enough that they now wear matching T-shirts that say “Kidney Buddies for Life.”

During a panel discussion Tuesday at the American Defense Communities’ national summit, advocates described how access to affordable housing, reliable child care and top public schools in communities near bases where military families reside contribute to readiness and retention.

Retired Army Col. Ralph Puckett, an Army Ranger who received the Medal of Honor for lifesaving heroics in the Korean War and the Distinguished Service Cross fighting in Vietnam, died Monday. He was 97.

The widow of an Army veteran whose lung cancer was not diagnosed for nearly two years after a “suspicious finding” turned up on a chest scan has received an $880,000 court settlement from a VA hospital.

A bill before Congress would jumpstart benefits for separating troops by authorizing accredited veterans organizations to place counselors in Defense Department transition assistance programs designed for service members preparing to leave the military.

Retired Army Maj. Larry Moores has received the Silver Star Medal for valor in combat more than 30 years after his actions in the infamous 1993 Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia — the battle made famous by the 2001 film “Black Hawk Down.”

A man accused of breaching the gate of the FBI’s Atlanta headquarters made his first court appearance Wednesday and will remain in custody until another hearing next week.

In 2019, the VA began a program that trains therapists nationwide on how to use written exposure therapy. Eighteen in Georgia have been trained, and more than 650 of their patients in the state have chosen to use it.

Ervin Lee Bolling, 48, of Easley, S.C., faces one federal count of destruction of government property, court documents show.

Combat boots of a different color will honor service members and their families in a permanent art installation at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Naval Support Activity Bethesda.

Government contracts are big business to private companies offering goods and services. The federal government plans to award $38 billion exclusively in contracts to small businesses certified as owned and operated by service-disabled veterans.

The foundation of the new $483 million Massachusetts Veterans Home at Holyoke is nearly complete, and the cranes are already being assembled that will raise the steel skeleton in May.