Gov. Tim Kaine proposed a series of tax increases Monday to help pay for the state's expanding highway maintenance deficit and pump new money into road and rail projects, but quickly ran into opposition from House Republican leaders and only tepid support from Senate Democrats.

The heavy, steady rain that pounded the region for more than 24 hours sent rivers over their beds, destroyed homes and caused one Montgomery County woman, caught in the grip of Beltway traffic, to deliver her third child in the back of a car.

The metro-area real estate market saw a slight uptick in April as the spring season, typically real estate’s busiest time of the year, got

How’d you like to have an extra lane during your drive to and from work every day? 

The Army and Fairfax County school officials have made little progress in forging a consensus on the number and destination of incoming students who can be expected when the military shifts 19,000 new jobs to Fort Belvoir.

The patrons at Champps, an upscale restaurant and bar chain, were eating ribs and drinking beer on a recent Saturday when customer Bruce Jackson stood up and made an announcement: He was armed, and so were dozens of other patrons.

Montgomery County police officer John Distel, 32, a six-year veteran, was arrested early Friday morning for driving his police cruiser under the influence of alcohol, Montgomery County police said. Around 1:25 a.m. Distel crashed his cruiser into a barrier on the left shoulder of the southbound side of Route 270. When officers responded to the accident they smelled alcohol on Distel's breath and arrested him, police said. He has been charged with driving under the influence and suspended with pay as the investigation continues. No one was injured.

T ax and tax. Spend and spend. Elect and elect!” New Deal architect Harry Hopkins may not have actually spoken those words, but they have nonetheless been the working motto of Democrats for 75 years.

A Fairfax County economic development group hopes to install dozens of signs along Richmond Highway in the hopes of guiding visitors to commercial and historic areas, the latest move in a mission to revitalize the aging seven-mile corridor.

The population of Fairfax County’s school system will balloon next year by more than 2,000 students, recent projections show, causing a new financial shortfall and countering notions that growth in student enrollment had begun to flatten.