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Virginia's transportation secretary is seeking regional support for a revamped I-495 Southside express lanes plan that would leave room for future Metrorail across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. Plus, the Fairfax County Planning Commission backs 278 townho...

Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell is standing by state Sen. L. Louise Lucas after her federal indictment on racketeering and marijuana conspiracy charges, while Northern Virginia leaders push back on a state study of merging Fairfax Connector, CUE ...

Fairfax County supervisors weighed privacy concerns against public safety as they debated the future of the police department’s Flock license plate readers, while police asked for the public’s help finding suspects in nine restaurant burglaries since J...

A plan to replace most of Reston’s Lake Fairfax Business Center with 1,017 homes and retail is headed to the Board of Supervisors, and the Fairfax County School Board has carved out an exception to its kindergarten device ban for the Lexia reading prog...

A pedestrian was killed and two others were seriously injured in three separate weekend crashes across Fairfax County, and a 15-year-old on an e-bike was hospitalized after being struck near McLean High School. Plus, county supervisors cleared the way ...

A federal appeals court has revived the lawsuit Fairfax County Public Schools filed over a federal funding freeze that FCPS estimates has cost it about $167 million, and Fairfax County is set to start testing 20-mph speed limits on 10 roads as soon as ...

The Washington Post will lay off 118 workers as it closes its longtime Springfield printing plant, and Fairfax County’s housing authority has bought land near the Innovation Center Metro station that could hold about 400 affordable homes. Plus, five No...

Fairfax County supervisors moved to tax recreational marijuana at the maximum 3.5% local rate once retail sales begin in July 2027, and a county study found that opening a restaurant here can take more than 10 months. Plus, FCPS has bought a $684,000 q...

Reston Association members could see their annual assessment rise to $900 under a proposed 2027 budget, while Fairfax County's housing market softened in September even as single-family prices ticked up. Plus, VDOT celebrated the nearly finished $94.4 ...

Fairfax County Public Schools is shifting staff and limiting outside hiring after enrollment came in several thousand students below projections, as the county rewrites its homelessness plan for the first time since 2008. Plus, a developer has proposed...

A Springfield man died in the Fairfax County jail hours after his arrest, the third death in the sheriff’s office’s custody this year, and a veteran Fairfax County police officer has been charged with shoplifting from two Target stores. Plus, a develop...

Fairfax County’s state legislators urged local leaders to tone down their criticism over K-12 funding, while county staff floated property tax breaks of up to 50 years for some new affordable housing projects. Plus, a Herndon man who worked as a mental...

Fairfax County supervisors voted to transfer the Centreville Regional Library site to the county’s housing authority, a step toward a renovated library with about 180 affordable apartments, while a developer proposed up to 300 homes in place of a vacan...

A proposed data center expansion in Tysons is on hold after Supervisor Dalia Palchik raised concerns about its environmental impacts and closeness to homes, and new state data shows Fairfax County's civilian workforce is its smallest since spring 2022....

Fairfax County police are searching for the driver who fled after fatally striking a pedestrian on Old Keene Mill Road in Springfield, the road's seventh deadly crash since 2024. Board Chairman Jeff McKay stressed the security of the county's elections...