As anyone who has walked through Virginia’s beautiful rivers, streams, and hiking trails can attest, there is plastic litter everywhere. It damages our waterways, harms our wildlife, and ...

Fairfax County police officers arrested a man after he recklessly discharged his gun in a Lincolnia neighborhood, according to police reports. On Jan. 17, at 1 p.m., officers responded to the 6400 ...

Just about everyone in Mount Vernon that’s been around for a few years has some memory of the Dixie Pig restaurant that used to sit on Beacon Hill across from the Beacon Mall shopping center.

When the Washington Commanders meet the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC championship game on Sunday, there’s nothing like being at a crowded bar, cheering your team on with a cold one in hand.

Squirrels, foxes, raccoons, turtles, snakes, deer, bats, birds, they are all around us all the time and we must learn to live with them, Carolyn Wilder with the Wildlife Rescue League told ...

McLean Project for the Arts will open its two new winter exhibitions — Pieced Together, We are Whole and Playing with Shadows: Works by Liz Lescault — with an opening exhibition reception on ...

The Fairfax County Delegation to the General Assembly offered Fairfax County residents and county leaders the opportunity on Saturday, Jan. 4, to share issues of importance and positional ...

Jim Wescoat was born on Dec. 7, 1921, in Atlantic City, N.J. Exactly 20 years later, after Pearl Harbor was bombed on Dec. 7, 1941, he joined the Marine Corps. Now 103, he’s the only Marine ...

Unless it’s an uncontested race, most elections pit one side against another. But when the dust settles, and the winners are chosen – especially in local, municipal elections – it’s ...

Supervisor Walter Alcorn’s reading of his board matter marks what could be defined as Act Three of the Crescent Property saga. Like any storytelling tool, Act One is the setup; Act Two is ...

Even as a student at McLean High School six years ago, Katherine Kelly demonstrated a strong commitment to the well-being of others. She took on leadership roles in McLean's chapters of Sources of ...

This week’s snowstorm not only brought a winter wonderland and slippery conditions, it also brought salt. Many homeowners and building, parking lot and highway managers apply salt to prevent ice ...