62 days ago - Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine will brief lawmakers Monday on the ever-shrinking state revenues that threaten to plunge the commonwealth into deeper financial trouble, potentially laying the groundwork for widespread cuts.
63 days ago - Former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner, whose success with working-class voters helped set in motion his party's resurgence in the Old Dominion, has been tapped to deliver the keynote speech at the Democratic convention this month.
64 days ago - Fairfax County will receive only a tiny fraction of the state’s post-Virginia Tech mental health funding, leaving officials lamenting a distribution that puts the county’s immense network of services on the same footing as much smaller agencies.
65 days ago - A new poll shows that John McCain is now running neck and neck with Barack Obama in Virginia, but McCain’s fellow Republican Jim Gilmore remains far behind Mark Warner in the state’s Senate race.
70 days ago - Reliance on overtime, spiking inmate medical care, a growing prisoner population and a greater need for private security drove the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office into a nearly $2.3 million shortfall at the end of the last fiscal year, county officials said.
71 days ago - Fairfax County is considering whether to fine mortgage companies for allowing foreclosed homes to slip into disrepair, potentially joining other governments across the country seeking to stem the damage of blighted, vacant properties.
72 days ago - Fairfax County is threatening to evict about 100 households from Wedgewood Apartments, the largest property in the county’s affordable housing program, unless the tenants release personal and financial data to prove they qualify to live there.
72 days ago - West Group, Tysons Corner’s largest landowner, has filed plans to build a mammoth redevelopment project envisioned for a new urban Tysons: 150-acre swath of offices, retail and living space closely tied to Metrorail.
73 days ago - Fairfax County wants to use treats such as molasses-smothered oats to lure deer into the cross hairs of police snipers, part of an effort to curb an overabundant population of the animals in county parks.
74 days ago - Fears of a strike by thousands of Verizon employees in Maryland, Virginia and the District rose in the final days of contract negotiations between the telecommunications company and two workers’ unions, as the two sides sought to forge an agreement over health care, job security and benefits before a midnight deadline last night.
77 days ago - More than 230,000 federal stimulus checks remain unclaimed in Maryland, Virginia and the District, the Internal Revenue Service says, prompting broad outreach efforts to help poor, disabled and elderly residents collect more than $70 million in payments before an October deadline.
79 days ago - A Fairfax County Circuit Court judge on Monday ruled against a group of Fairfax County parents who had sued the school system attempting to block a school boundary shift that would send their children to a poorer, less prestigious school.
79 days ago - The full Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will review a May ruling by a smaller panel of its judges that struck down Virginia’s partial-birth abortion ban, the court said Monday.