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Administration officials ruled Monday that the Department of Veterans Affairs will be exempt from massive federal budget cuts scheduled to go into effect early next year. Read more »

Key lawmakers are appealing directly to President Obama to get the Veterans Affairs Department to provide free health care to veterans who were exposed to contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune during a 30-year span that ended in 1987. Read more »

The Department of Veterans Affairs has greatly overstated how quickly it provides mental-health care for veterans, according to an inspector general’s report released Monday. Read more »

The Department of Veterans Affairs would be exempt from automatic, across-the-board reductions in federal budget growth that could take effect in January, the Obama administration said Monday. Read more »

Syracuse University hosted the "Conference on Engaging Community Support for Veterans" to help veterans in Central New York. It happened Friday morning at the OnCenter, hosted by the Institute for Veterans and Military Families and Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle. Read more »

Calling the slow progress on the much-delayed Orlando VA Medical Center "unacceptable," U.S. Rep. Sandy Adams, R-Orlando, chastised VA officials as she toured the construction site Monday. Read more »

Officials with the Department of Veterans Affairs think they would be safe from automatic, across-the-board budget reductions set to take effect in January. But they aren’t positive. Read more »

-- Ryan Lundeby returned home in 2010 not able to communicate with his wife, an effect of post traumatic stress after serving four years in the Army as an Airborne Ranger, including three deployments in Iraq and two in Afghanistan. Read more »

A good number of the 80,000 veterans living in the northern San Joaquin Valley are completely unaware of the mental health services available to them through the Department of Veterans Affairs. Read more »

As thousands of additional veterans seek mental health care every month, the Department of Veterans Affairs is short of psychiatrists, with 20% vacancy rates in much of the country served by VA hospitals, according to department data Read more »