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New Reston Town Center offices fully leased, with retail coming

Published January 13, 2026 at 1:45PM

The Fannie Mae and Volkswagen office buildings in the Reston Town Center expansion (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

Reston Town Center’s newest office towers are now fully booked up, a notable feat as the office market elsewhere in Northern Virginia is still seeking to stabilize post-pandemic.

Developer BXP announced yesterday (Monday) that it has fully leased all 1.1 million square feet of new office space in the first phase of its town center expansion, known informally as RTC Next.

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BREAKING: Protestors blockade Capital One Center in Tysons

By Angela Woolsey

Published January 13, 2026 at 10:15AM | Updated January 13, 2026 at 1:29PM

Protesters protesting Capital One on roadway in Tysons, Jan. 13, 2026 (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

A group of protestors blocked traffic at Capital One’s headquarters in Tysons this morning (Tuesday).

Organizers called for the finance giant to drop a $90 million loan to the Arlington-based weapons company Elbit Systems, which they say supplies the Israeli military and federal immigration enforcement agencies.

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FCPD: Speed under investigation in fatal Fairfax County Parkway crash

By Angela Woolsey

Published January 13, 2026 at 9:15AM

Fairfax County Parkway at Huntsman Blvd in Burke (via Google Maps)

Fairfax County police are investigating whether speed may have contributed to a crash that killed a driver on Fairfax County Parkway this weekend.

Jane Clayton, a 48-year-old Alexandria resident, died after she appears to have “lost control” of her 2004 Chevrolet Cavalier while driving on the parkway near Huntsman Blvd in Burke around 7:45 a.m. on Saturday (Jan. 10), according to the Fairfax County Police Department.

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Special election frenzy heats up with voting for three state races, Braddock school board seat

By Angela Woolsey

Published January 12, 2026 at 2:45PM

A sign pointing to a voting site in Fairfax County (file photo)

The blitz of special elections facing Fairfax County voters to start 2026 is ramping up this week, with the ballot for the Braddock District School Board seat now solidified and voting opening or in progress in three state-level contests.

Democratic voters in the Braddock District have chosen Tom Dannan, a local business owner and Terra Centre resident, as their preferred candidate to succeed Rachna Sizemore Heizer, who vacated the district’s Fairfax County School Board seat in December to serve as its new supervisor.

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Trial begins against husband charged with Herndon double homicide

By Associated Press and Angela Woolsey

Published January 12, 2026 at 11:45AM

A framed photo of Brendan Banfield and Juliana Peres Magalhães on his bedside table in Herndon, provided by police as evidence in their murder case against him (courtesy Fairfax County Police Department via AP, FILE)

Jury selection began this morning (Monday) in the postponed trial against a Herndon man accused by prosecutors of concocting a scheme with his family’s au pair to frame a stranger in the fatal stabbing of his wife.

Brendan Banfield is charged with aggravated murder in the February 2023 killings of Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at the Banfields’ home in northern Virginia. He has pleaded not guilty in the case.

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VDH: Child with measles visited Fort Belvoir medical center

By Angela Woolsey

Published January 12, 2026 at 11:15AM

The Augusta Military Medical Center Emergency Department at Fort Belvoir (via Alexander T. Augusta Military Medical Center/Facebook)

A preschool-aged child diagnosed with measles recently visited the medical center at Fort Belvoir, among other locations in the D.C. region, the Virginia Department of Health says.

The child, who lives in Northern Virginia, was present at the Alexander T. Augusta Military Medical Center Emergency Department and Executive Medicine Suite (9300 DeWitt Loop) at Fort Belvoir between 9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m., and from 10 p.m. to midnight last Friday (Jan. 9), potentially exposing other patients, visitors and staff.

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Vienna residents protesting ICE’s fatal shooting of Renee Good line Maple Avenue

By Angela Woolsey

Published January 12, 2026 at 9:15AM | Updated January 13, 2026 at 5:00PM

Scenes from Jan. 11, 2026 ICE Out for Good protest on Maple Avenue in Vienna (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

A near-constant cacophony of car horns issued from the core of Maple Avenue in Vienna yesterday afternoon (Sunday), and this time, it wasn’t an expression of frustration with congestion.

Instead, passing drivers were honking in support of protestors lining both sides of the town’s main street in response to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shooting poet and mother Renee Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Wednesday (Jan. 7).

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Another pedestrian seriously injured in Saturday crash on Maple Avenue

By Angela Woolsey

Published January 12, 2026 at 8:30AM

Vienna police at the scene of a pedestrian crash near the Maple Avenue W&OD Trail crossing on Jan. 10, 2026 (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

A drizzly, foggy evening served as the setting of another crash on Maple Avenue in Vienna that left a pedestrian critically injured.

The crash occurred around 8:10 p.m. on Saturday (Jan. 10) when a driver heading toward Tysons on Maple Avenue East struck the pedestrian near the Washington & Old Dominion (W&OD) Trail crossing, according to the Town of Vienna Police Department.

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NOW: Hunter Mill Road closed after driver crashes into electric pole

By Angela Woolsey

Published January 9, 2026 at 3:45PM

Hunter Mill Road closed near Lawyers Road in Oakton after single-vehicle crash on Jan. 9, 2026 (via Google Maps)

A driver is in critical condition after crashing into an electric pole on Hunter Mill Road in Oakton, police say.

The crash involved a single vehicle that ran into a utility pole just south of Lawyers Road. A Fairfax Alerts message suggests it occurred around 2 p.m.

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Potential bill would exempt Lorton waste incinerator from Va. carbon reduction regulations

By Angela Woolsey

Published January 9, 2026 at 2:45PM

Reworld's I-95 Energy Resource Recovery Facility off of Furnace Road (via Google Maps)

A requirement established by the Virginia Clean Economy Act could force a Lorton incinerator that converts waste into energy to shut down, undermining the intent of the law, state Sen. Scott Surovell (D-34) says.

The Senate majority leader plans to introduce a bill at the Virginia General Assembly’s upcoming session that would exclude Fairfax County’s I-95 Energy Resource Recovery Facility (9898 Furnace Road) from regulations requiring larger electricity generators to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions, starting in 2031.