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A Northern Virginia nonprofit incurred nearly $700,000 providing emergency medical care for people who fled Afghanistan in 2021. The State Department owes them.

An Alexandria civic group created last year to preserve the city’s single-family neighborhoods has moved its fight to court.

Va. Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) told lawmakers he will support an increase in Metro funding, which Democrats demanded before considering sports arena for Potomac Yards.

The bill would allow Fairfax County voters to decide if a casino can help reverse the impacts of office vacancies and declining Metro ridership caused by the pandemic.

At Virginia’s General Assembly, the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday has become an open-air debating ground for the issue of guns and gun violence.

Virginia’s General Assembly will have to act on a plan to bring Capitals and Wizards to Potomac Yard, but so far the specifics of the deal are elusive.

Oakton High School’s marching band played five songs, including “Enter Sandman,” and wore costumes for Metallica’s inaugural competition.

The project to build as many as 34 data centers on mostly rural land in the Gainesville area has been riddled with controversy since it was proposed in 2020.

Alexandria City Council could vote to rename four of the Virginia city’s Confederate streets, capping off a new, annual process to gradually change these names.

The vote took place as lawmakers returned to Richmond Wednesday, convening their session with a heavy focus on taxes and incentives for the proposed Wizards/Caps arena.

Portsmouth Democrat Don L. Scott Jr. spoke of faith and redemption as he became the first Black person chosen as speaker of the House in Virginia history.

Virginia and federal officials said this week that DNA evidence suggests a man who died in 2017 was responsible for three long-unsolved murders in Hampton Roads.

The Virginia legislature kicks off its 2024 session on Wednesday, with 60 days for Democrats to tussle with Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) over priorities.

Democrat Leslie Mehta, former lead attorney with the ACLU of Virginia, hopes to take on Rep. Rob Wittman (R) in November’s general election.

Her videos — the most popular seen by 7.7 million viewers as of this week — recently prompted the town of Herndon to shut down the project.

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The land now making up Cattail Regional Park, a sprawling patch of forest and fields just outside Leesburg, was donated to Northern Virginia’s parks authority.

Aaron Spence was aware of the challenges Loudoun County’s public schools faced when he agreed to become superintendent. He hopes to help the district rebuild.