The three contenders seeking to represent the Braddock District on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors made their case to voters last night (Wednesday).
A capacity crowd packed Braddock Hall to hear from the aspiring successors to James Walkinshaw, who resigned after winning election to Congress in September.
Fairfax County leaders are welcoming renewed efforts giving localities the ability to electronically monitor vehicle noise and fine those whose vehicles exceed state limits.
Del. Rip Sullivan (D-6) plans to reintroduce legislation on the subject during the 2026 General Assembly session, his office confirmed. In this year’s session, his measure made it to the desk of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), but was vetoed.
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A new supply of townhomes could be in store for Pimmit Hills, meeting a demand evidenced by the speed at which developer EYA’s Tysons Ridge neighborhood sold out.
The owner of the nearby office complex at 7600 Leesburg Pike secured the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors’ approval on Tuesday (Oct. 14) for a redevelopment that will replace the two existing buildings with over 100 townhomes.
The long-awaited trial for a Herndon man accused of orchestrating the killings of his wife and another man has been postponed once again.
Brendan Banfield’s trial is now scheduled to begin Jan. 13, with Fairfax Circuit Court Chief Judge Penney S. Azcarate granting a continuance in court yesterday (Wednesday). The trial had been been scheduled to start Oct. 20 (Monday), having been previously continued earlier this year.
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Judge Blocks Federal Worker Firings — “President Donald Trump’s administration for now must stop firing workers during the government shutdown, a federal judge ordered on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco said the cuts appeared to be politically motivated and were being carried out without much thought.” [Associated Press/ARLnow]
Vienna Man Charged With Keeping Classified Documents — “A prominent foreign affairs analyst and senior State Department adviser was arrested over the weekend and charged with illegally storing sensitive government records after federal agents found more than 1,000 pages of secret documents at his home, the Justice Department said Tuesday.” [New York Times]
Youngkin Quiet on Paused Federal Grants — “Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration is not providing Virginia legislators or the public details of hundreds of millions of dollars of paused federal grants, according to records requests and documents acquired by VPM News and WAMU.” Secretary of Finance Stephen Cummings most recently told a state Senate committee in September that $466 million in grant funds have been paused or canceled. [VPM News]
Parents Worried by Special Education Cuts — Recently, some state elected officials and “members of the Fairfax County Special Education PTA (SEPTA) gathered to address cuts that could affect not only children with disabilities but all children. Parents of children with disabilities expressed alarm at the U.S. Department of Education cuts that happened over the weekend.” [NBC4]
Paving Work to Close Dulles Toll Road Lanes — “ALERT: The two left eastbound lanes of the Dulles Toll Road will be closed for paving beginning at 10 a.m. on October 16. thru October 20. The lanes will closed from Leesburg Pike through the main toll plaza. Prepare for potential delays and avoid the left lanes.” [Dulles Toll Road/X]
Loudoun Struggling to Draw Young Adults — “Families are increasingly moving away from the D.C. region, a trend that’s especially true in one of the wealthiest Virginia suburbs. Loudoun County is the only D.C. area suburb that didn’t add to its 25-44 age group population, according to a WTOP analysis of census data from 2024.” [WTOP]
Grand Opening Coming for Reston Sushi Restaurant — “Kusshi Sushi, a Montgomery County-born restaurant brand known for its modern take on Japanese dining, will officially open its eighth location on Saturday, October 18th, at Reston Town Center … Kusshi will host an exclusive Bluefin Tuna Cutting Ceremony at 4pm on opening day.” Limited seatings will then be available for a curated tuna omakase tasting menu. [MoCo Show]
New Crime Novel Set in N. Va. — Author Patricia Cornwell “has sold a staggering 100 million books, and in her latest novel, Sharp Force — the 29th installment in the Scarpetta series — the character is once again on the trail of a serial killer. And this time around, the victims are in Northern Virginia.” [Northern Virginia Magazine]
It’s Thursday — Expect sunny conditions and a high temperature around 62 degrees, accompanied by a north wind blowing at 9 to 14 mph and gusts reaching up to 26 mph. Thursday night will be clear with the temperature dropping to a low of around 42 degrees, while the north wind continues to blow at approximately 8 mph. [NWS]
Good Wednesday evening, Fairfax County. Let’s take a look back at today’s stories and a look forward to tomorrow’s event calendar.
The following articles were published earlier today — Oct 15, 2025.
Here is what’s going on Thursday throughout the county, from our event calendar.
The weather will be sunny, reaching a high of about 62 degrees, accompanied by a north wind of 8 to 14 mph and gusts up to 25 mph. Thursday night will be clear and cooler with a low around 40 degrees, and a north wind of 6 to 8 mph. See more from Weather.gov.
The MonumentCam screenshot above is used with permission of the Trust for the National Mall and courtesy of EarthCam.
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A key regional planning body voted today (Wednesday) to defer until at least 2026 any further consideration of the Virginia Department of Transportation’s plan to extend express lanes on the south side of the Capital Beltway (I-495) across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge and into Maryland.
“The project is simply not ready,” said Eric Olson, a member of the Prince George’s County Council who sits on the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments’ Transportation Planning Board (TPB).
Fairfax City residents think it’s a great place to live and rate its services highly, despite ongoing concerns over traffic and lack of affordable housing, according to new data from the City of Fairfax’s first community survey.
The results of the survey — which was conducted over the summer by the ETC Institute, a Kansas-based firm that provides market research for local governments — were presented to city council members during a work session on Oct. 7.
A new PBS documentary is airing this weekend, and it features Northern Virginia’s own Washington & Old Dominion (W&OD) Trail.
Set to be broadcast on WETA Metro, the local public television station, “From Rails to Trails” highlights the decades-long struggle to transform abandoned railroad tracks into public trails. The film was adapted from Peter Harnik’s 2021 book of the same name.
