Fairfax County leadership is sticking with plans for a sidewalk project near Justice High School that critics say is duplicative and would be destructive to the environment.
The Fairfax County Department of Transportation (FCDOT) expects to begin work in June on 825 linear feet of 5-foot-wide sidewalk between Mansfield Road near Justice Park and the cul-de-sac at Peace Valley Lane in the Lake Barcroft area south of Seven Corners.
Students at Justice High School will be heading home early today (Tuesday) after a gas leak was detected this morning.
Washington Gas crews were sent to the school in Lake Barcroft (3301 Peace Valley Lane) around 8 a.m. after receiving a report of a natural gas odor.
An affordable independent living complex planned in the Lake Barcroft area near Falls Church has secured key financing to move forward.
At its meeting on Dec. 9, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors unanimously authorized the county’s Redevelopment and Housing Authority to issue $16 million in tax-exempt bonds for the $51.6 million Kindred Crossing project.
At some point in the new year, Fairfax County residents might start seeing signs for 20-mph speed limits in their neighborhood.
The Fairfax County Department of Transportation has proposed several streets for inclusion in a pilot study testing the reduced speed limits that’s tentatively expected to launch in summer 2026.
A popular summer camp in Lake Barcroft remains closed days after a storm took out its electricity last Thursday (June 19).
Though Dominion Energy has restored power to nearly all of the 70,000-plus affected residents and businesses, a handful of customers are still dealing with outages — including Congressional Camp, which shared on Friday (June 20) that the storm had taken out a transformer for its 40-acre campus at 3229 Sleepy Hollow Road.
A woman and her husband were killed in a crash near Lake Barcroft last night.
The Fairfax County Police Department said it was a single-vehicle crash. According to scanner traffic, the vehicle crashed into a house and caught on fire.
Fairfax County residents who live on streets that limit cut-through traffic can now get exempted from those restrictions.
The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday (Feb. 18) to begin accepting petitions in July from neighborhoods that want to provide the carve-out for residents while retaining restrictions on other drivers.
A man was shot in Lake Barcroft yesterday (Wednesday) while allegedly attempting to break into a home.
The homeowner called 911 around 2:27 a.m. to report a “suspicious” man who was reportedly trying to force his way into the house in the 6400 block of Oakwood Drive, the Fairfax County Police Department said in a press release.
The Virginia Telemental Health Initiative is up and running as Virginia’s first statewide, free virtual mental health clinic after successfully completing a pilot phase.
The nonprofit initiative offers free tele-mental health services to eligible uninsured or under-insured Virginians, according to a news release.
(Updated at 4 p.m.) A man was taken into custody around midnight after a roughly seven-hour-long police barricade at a Lake Barcroft condominium building.
The Fairfax County Police Department tweeted at 5:17 p.m. yesterday (Tuesday) that its officers were on the scene in the 3300 block of Rio Drive in response to a brandishing incident, where a man with a rifle was seen on a fifth-level apartment balcony “shouting threats.”
