The Alexandria Sportsman’s Club October Athletes of the Month from all four City of Alexandria High Schools will be honored as the tradition continues at the ASC Washington Commanders Night Oct. 16 at ...

Victim’s mother Melissa Johnson at the Fairfax NAACP Rally for Justice [File photo 2023] Photo by Mercia Hobson .

More than 50,000 visitors flooded the streets of Del Ray Oct. 5 for the 29th annual Art on the Avenue multicultural arts festival on Mount Vernon Avenue. Considered one of the top arts events in ...

Tarrick McGuire, currently the Assistant Chief of Police in Arlington, Texas, has been named the new Alexandria Chief of Police effective Nov. 25. City Manager Jim Parajon announced the appointment, ...

Voters, get your ballots ready. In-person absentee voting starts Friday, and all six seats on the Alexandria City Council are up for grabs. In a series of interviews with the Alexandria Gazette ...

On Monday, Sept. 30, from 7:30 to 9 p.m., Cornerstones and the Dulles Regional Chamber of Commerce will host the Town of Herndon Mayoral Candidate Forum at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 651 ...

The Alexandria Gazette Packet, our flagship paper, is perhaps the oldest continuously publishing paper in the United States, beginning in 1784. At the Gazette and Connection, we still answer the ...

Derogatory expressions like “dingbat,” “going batty” and “blind as a bat” seem ingrained in the American lexicon. For starters, bats are not blind, but many bat myths abound.

Remember when helicopters were scrambled to deal with a runaway balloon that floated away with a six-year-old boy inside? What about documenting the melting glaciers in Iceland, an Afghan ski club ...

The Fairfax County Supervisors present the county’s former chief equity officer, Karla Bruce, with a resolution to honor and ...

An officer was on patrol in the area of Worldgate Drive and Elden Street around 7:40 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 6, when he heard what he believed to be gunshots coming from the Worldgate Shopping Center. As ...

Accidents have declined with implementation of the traffic diet and increased traffic volumes on Fort Hunt Road and Sherwood Hall Lane have not materialized according to VDOT data. However, in the ...