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.

Warner tapped as keynote speaker at Dem convention

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.

Fairfax being shortchanged in post-Va. Tech funding to strengthen mental health services, critics say

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.

Poll shows Obama, McCain even as Warner leads Gilmore in Va.

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.

Overtime, inmate drug costs drive Fairfax sheriff shortfall

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.

Fairfax weighs fining mortgage companies for derelict foreclosures

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.

Fairfax Co. threatens to evict non-responsive tenants

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.

Group moves on major Tysons project

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.

Faced with deer boom, Fairfax looks at bait

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.

Region girds for potential Verizon strike

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.

Region’s low-income seniors drive glut of unclaimed stimulus checks

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.

Fairfax judge affirms school boundary shift

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.

Appeals court to weigh ban on partial-birth abortion

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.