On Sept. 30, 1974, the doors of Orange Hunt Elementary School in Springfield opened to students from the surrounding communities in Burke, Hunt Valley and Keene Mill to a school that featured the ...

President Biden issued a proclamation recognizing October as National Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Month. October’s observation serves as a way to connect and unite individuals and ...

The US team took home the gold in Paris on Sept. 7, Jenifer’s 36th birthday.

When Janet Challender was walking from the Hollin Hall Senior Center to her car around 2 p.m. on Oct. 15, as she rounded the corner, suddenly, out of the sky, two bald eagles intertwined with each ...

Coping with traffic snarls, ever-sprawling development and debates about data centers and casinos, few Northern Virginians likely realize that agriculture is Virginia’s largest private industry with ...

Voting by property owners in the projected Old Town Business Improvement Service District (BISD) has been completed with the results indicating that the proposal by the Old Town Business Association ...

“Our lawyers said [plaintiffs] don’t have a leg to stand on. It’s a really thin case. Zoning is one of the few things we can do. We can’t have people pushing us around.” — Libby Garvey ...

Two of Alexandria’s Vietnam veterans initially reported as Missing in Action will be remembered during a ceremony Sept. 20 at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in a first-of-its-kind ...

The Great Falls Citizens Association has raised concerns about the findings of a road safety audit conducted by Kimley-Horn, a engineering, planning, and design consultant retained by VDOT for $ ...

Get ready to pedal your way to a good time in the Mount Vernon District! Join me and Fairfax Alliance for Better Bicycling (FABB) for the 9th Annual Tour de Mount Vernon Community Bike Ride on ...

On the ballot this year, Virginians will have the opportunity to vote for a constitutional amendment to provide equitable tax relief to surviving spouses of military service members who died in ...

The family-friendly Clifton Day 2024, held on Sunday, Oct. 13, celebrated its 56th anniversary and the beauty and charm of ...