Volunteers clean headstones in Alexandria National Cemetery as part of the Sept. 11 National Day of Service. More than 4,000 ...

Attended by more than 7,000 people, the 26th annual Labor Day Car Show was a huge success. It’s put on jointly by the City of ...

The Eisenhower Partnership, in collaboration with Carlyle Crossing, presents the 2nd Annual Rock the Avenue Block Party. Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025, from noon to 4 p.m. for a free, family-friendly ...

Volunteers clean headstones at Alexandria National Cemetery. Volunteers clean headstones at Alexandria National Cemetery.

Sophia Williams sits at her iPad drawing larger and larger spirals. “Larger spirals, larger thoughts,” she explains. Sophia ...

Inside the big blue tent a large metal disk hangs high over the side of the stage. It represents the Aztec calendar and when it is turned around represents the sun or moon. The crew is busy setting up ...

Transportation in Mount Vernon was the topic at the recent Mount Vernon Springfield Chamber Business Breakfast at the Belle Haven Country Club. Attendees talked about express lanes, the Richmond ...

Laughter filled the School Board chamber when Superintendent Melanie Kay-Wyatt suggested that she was “committed to transparency.” For student journalists who packed the room, the punchline landed ...

The Pohick Regional Library was packed for the Burke Historical Society’s 45-minute talk on “Lost Towns of Fairfax County,” presented by Heather Bollinger of Aldie and Jeff Clark of Fair Oaks, on ...

The freezer of the Roy Rogers Restaurant on Little River Turnpike in Alexandria turned into a mass grave the night of March 6, 1976. The freezer also saved the life of Julie Nakpodia, who survived in ...

Unbeknownst to most residents, when the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors recently re-adopted its revamped zoning ordinance, zMOD, it quietly added a provision allowing data centers to be built, by ...

Leslie Roberts recalls hearing a mother talk about getting her stepson admitted to a psychiatric hospital. “Her stepson was angry and acting out,” said Roberts. “She didn’t understand what her stepson ...