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Alexandria's independent policing auditor, Ameratu Kamara, has resigned, and Police Chief Tarrick McGuire says a license plate reader helped track down the suspect in a July killing in the West End. Plus, Gov. Abigail Spanberger and Attorney General Ja...

The Alexandria School Board plans to tentatively announce the city's next superintendent on Oct. 22, and an Alexandria babysitter faces felony charges after a 6-month-old in her care overdosed. Plus, three D.C. women are charged with felonies after all...

Alexandria released its draft Duke Street Land Use Plan, the corridor's first update since 1992, as a new survey found federal job cuts and furloughs hitting Alexandria households harder than the regional average. Also today, a grand jury indicted an A...

Alexandria's Traffic and Parking Board rejected new parking and loading spaces on Russell Road near Naomi L. Brooks Elementary, citing student safety. Virginia State Police released new details on the stolen-car pursuit that ended in a crash killing th...

Three juveniles died after a high-speed police chase on I-395 in Alexandria early Monday, and ACPS says newly eligible students can start riding the bus by Oct. 5 after pushback over unsafe walk zones. Plus, Alexandria police will publish a map of the ...

Fifteen current and former ACPS employees describe turmoil in the school system’s transportation department to the Alexandria Times, while the renovated Dunkin’ on South Van Dorn Street reopens Saturday with a year of free coffee for its first 100 elig...

Alexandria City Council pushed proposed limits on speaker conduct at its meetings to December, while opponents of the Plaza 500 data center project plan an Oct. 10 march from the West End. Plus, staff at a Potomac Yard restaurant describe fighting off ...

Coastal flooding is set to affect Alexandria's Potomac shoreline into Friday morning, and President Trump's repeal of a 2009 Chesapeake Bay cleanup order now directs federal agencies to target local stormwater utility fees like the one Alexandria charg...

Residents pressed City Council at Saturday's public hearing to drop Alexandria's Flock license plate readers, and Council deferred a Parker-Gray townhouse plan to October over the potential loss of neighborhood commercial space. NOVA Parks also adopted...

Early voting opened in Alexandria today for the Nov. 3 election, with the U.S. Senate race, the 8th District congressional race and three constitutional amendments on the ballot. Police say an alleged 2025 sexual assault at Alexandria City High School'...

Alexandria hit $1 billion in visitor spending for a second straight year as Visit Alexandria marked its 30th anniversary, while two restaurants at the Shoppes at Foxchase remain closed more than three weeks after a delivery truck struck a power line be...

Police have arrested a 21-year-old Alexandria man in Tuesday's Arlandria stabbing that left the victim in critical condition. Alexandria City Public Schools is evaluating potentially hazardous intersections across the city ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline ...

Safe-streets advocates are pressing Alexandria to put cameras at stop signs near schools after logging 241 near-miss reports citywide, and Gov. Abigail Spanberger toured Eisenhower East nonprofit Cornerstone Craftsman, saying she wants a closer look at...

Early voting in Alexandria opens Friday, Sept. 18, ahead of a Nov. 3 ballot featuring U.S. Senate and 8th Congressional District races plus three constitutional amendments, and City Council returns from summer recess Sept. 19 to weigh Parker-Gray and D...

Alexandria City Public Schools says it will respond to parents' requests to reinstate school bus routes by Sept. 30, after Arlandria families told the School Board that its new walk zones left children without buses on routes they say aren't safe. City...