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Herndon's Town Council has fired Town Manager Dan Hoffman less than a year into the job, a 16-year-old is charged in Tuesday's Mount Vernon Plaza shooting that injured two men, and county planners deferred a vote on turning Reston's mostly vacant Lake ...

A former Hayfield Secondary School principal is charged with embezzling nearly $8,000 in school funds, and Fairfax City and county leaders broke ground on the $127 million Willard-Sherwood Health & Community Center. Plus, Onelife Fitness confirms a 110...

Teachers at Lake Braddock Secondary School have filed a union grievance against FCPS over being assigned to weapons detection duty, and a garbage truck driver has been charged in the Fairfax City crash that killed a 13-year-old e-bike rider. Plus, the ...

The Town of Herndon is preparing an appeal after a Fairfax County judge ruled Comstock does not have to return a key downtown site. Also: a new survey finds nearly half of Fairfax County households have been hurt by federal job cuts, and a Woodbridge m...

The Fairfax County School Board voted unanimously to ban Flock-style license plate readers on school property, and the Board of Supervisors holds a hearing Tuesday on a plan change that could bring a 280-unit apartment building to the Hilltop Village C...

State regulators will take public testimony on the proposed Dominion Energy-NextEra merger at an Oct. 9 hearing in Fairfax County, as VDOT lays out a timeline for two-way, 24/7 I-95 Express Lanes. Plus, county leaders move $15 million into a new Econom...

Sunrise Senior Living is asking Fairfax County to rezone part of a McLean office park for 145 independent living units on a site already approved for condominiums, and the Board of Supervisors fast-tracked its review of a renovation plan for the Mount ...

Fairfax County police identified the Chantilly woman killed while crossing Route 50 in a mobility wheelchair, and a new report found that most near-misses between drivers and pedestrians on county roads happen repeatedly at the same spots. Supervisors ...

Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed an executive order Friday creating what her office calls the country's most aggressive data center accountability framework, ending by-right approvals for large projects and requiring data centers to pay a more equitable ...

Early in-person voting in Fairfax County opens Friday, with congressional races, a $180 million parks bond, a $75 million human services bond and three state constitutional amendments on the ballot. Also today: a national anti-data-center bus tour stop...

Fairfax County supervisors paused new Flock license plate reader installations pending an Oct. 20 committee review, and gave final approval to the framework for redeveloping the 46.6-acre Reston Town Center North site with Inova. The board also adopted...

Fairfax County supervisors voted to restore crossing guard funding at ten high schools after a pedestrian-safety rally and a three-hour public hearing, and the recently removed leader of a national health care coalition was charged with secretly filmin...

Fairfax County staff will ask the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday to spend about $708,000 restoring 11 high school crossing guard positions cut in the FY 2027 budget, after at least five students were struck by drivers since the school year began. Fair...

Fairfax County marked the 25th anniversary of 9/11 with a remembrance ceremony at its Public Safety Headquarters, where leaders honored two county first responders who later died of 9/11-related cancer and pledged to keep telling the story to a generat...

Fairfax County police are investigating the deaths of a husband and wife found shot inside a Centreville home Wednesday evening, while Fairfax City police investigate a crash that killed a 13-year-old bicyclist outside a shopping center on Pickett Road...