Fairfax County News

At first, there were one or two husks on a tree. Then there were several squashed bugs in the school parking lot.

The West Springfield District Station of the Fairfax County Police Department is sponsoring a version of the Citizen Police Academy as part of their new initiatives for 2013.

We tried having him go to preschool, and it was not a good fit for him,” said Wilson, the government affairs director for the Organization of Virginia Homeschoolers.

In a letter to parents, the district acknowledged "significant problems" while administering the online tests due to an outage with the school system's Internet service provider.

Coming soon to a theater near you: Fairfax area advocates and police on the big screen warning moviegoers not to drink and drive.

On the above map, the addresses are block numbers, not specific home or business addresses.

Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department 4100 Chain Bridge Rd, Fairfax, Virginia 22030 Phone: 703-246-3801, TTY: 711 and Fax:703-385-1687 Duty PIO : 703-877-3702 fire-rescue.PA-LSE@fairfaxcounty.gov News Release 13-59 Date: May 22, 2013 Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department units responded to a house fire, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at ... (more)

Virginia's unemployment rate dropped to 5.2 percent in April, the lowest it's been in more than four years.

Fairfax County public school teachers pleaded for School Board members to include funding within the budget that could help rebalance workloads, increase pay and add to student resources.

Patch has 31 community sites in Virginia and D.C. Here are some of the top stories from around the region over the past week.

A Fairfax Station woman has been charged with cruelty to an animal after turning her dog over to the Fairfax County Animal Shelter on Tuesday, May 21.

Update 3:50 p.m. Washington Gas is now on scene and crews hope to have the leaked gas line repaired within the hour, according to Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department spokesman Dan Schmidt.

Rescue teams in our area want you to know that the Potomac River is not the place to take a dip on a hot summer day.

A 20-year-old Falls Church woman was charged with robbery following an incident in the 1600 block of Anderson Rd.

Fairfax County is now part of a new system that automatically sends text messages to area phone users during the most dire of emergencies.

A man was caught reportedly staring into a home early Saturday morning, rattling the residents, on Marsden Court in Chantilly.

Fairfax County Police are looking for three men they say robbed two men in an Alexandria home Wednesday morning near the Skyline Mall.

Want to know more about future plans for Baron Cameron Park? The Fairfax County Park Authority now has a project website devoted to all things Baron Cameron.

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Caitlin Acosta, 24, said her life spun out of control after she took a bottle of prescription drugs out of her parents' medicine cabinet when she was in seventh grade.