White’s Ferry has operated since 1786, recently as an $8 cable ferry service that carried vehicles across the Potomac River from Poolesville to Loudoun County. But a few days before the New Year ...

A quaint village in Western Fairfax County enjoyed anonymity until the day former first lady Nancy Reagan came to town. It was the mid-1980s and Clifton hasn’t been the same since. Northern ...

Tastes change; so, too, an owner’s requirements of their home. In the early 1960s, for instance, no floor plan concept seemed better suited to the demands of modern life than the split level ...

Walls March For Justice, led by Reverend Dr. Keary Kincannon and Pastor Brian Brown, giving the national movement against police brutality a local voice. Organizers described it as a nonviolent ...

On Sept. 15, the Fairfax County Department of Transportation (FCDOT) held Community Meeting #5 to bring the public up to date and continue soliciting feedback on its studies to improve traffic ...

Usually Republicans have to recruit candidates to run against four-term U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D-8). Not this year. Five Republicans are seeking the Republican nomination for the 8th Congressional ...

The Nov. 7 election includes the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. Nine members are elected by voters in local districts to serve four-year terms. Twenty-one district candidates are in the race ...

With 13 homicides reported across all of Fairfax County already this year, the unprecedented spike in killings is a concern. Locally, two Sterling men have recently been charged with murdering a ...

Even during these stressful times of COVID-19, the theater adage “the show must go on” remains true. But how? In response to the pandemic, students from Fairfax County and Falls Church high ...

The Fairfax County School Board held a hybrid regular meeting on Jan. 21. Jeffrey K. Platenberg, assistant superintendent, Facilities and Transportation Services, brought forward a new ...

Local, county and state elected officials, organizations, faith-based clergy and others across the United States, including those regionally in Virginia, are bracing for a possible surge in ...

What is also clear from the slave names on the manifests of the slave trade ships is that the enslaved African-Americans of Virginia and Maryland did have a rich and extended family structure.