Northern Virginia

Fairfax County first graders visited West Springfield High School students at their football field for an interactive learning experience.

A woman out walking her dog was hit and killed in Woodbridge, Virginia, early Thursday when a driver crashed onto the sidewalk, authorities say.

A 9-year-old boy told police he was locked in a room, forced to urinate in a bottle and repeatedly beaten in a Reston, Virginia, apartment by a woman who was supposed to be caring for him, court documents say.

For young teens, starting high school can be a large transition. Try being cast in a movie on top of that.

A powerful explosion leveled a home in Haymarket, Virginia, after contractors hit an underground gas line and residents were told to evacuate. No one was injured. Two couples and their very young children lived in the home, and the families lost everything. The families were evacuated and no injuries were reported, according to the fire department,...

New information about a double murder in Manassas points to a violent incident the day before the bodies of Joshua Lee Davis and his wife, Nicole Wanda Lynn Davis, were found in the basement they rented in a house on Hanson Grove Court. Investigators have learned that on Oct. 12, Amandeep Singh pulled a gun on two other women who…

“I’d probably be a serial killer,” Stephan Smerk recently said after the brutal 1994 killing of Robin Lawrence in West Springfield.

A powerful explosion leveled a home in Haymarket, Virginia, after contractors hit an underground gas line and residents were told to evacuate. No one was injured. Two couples and their very young children lived in the home, and the families lost everything. The families were evacuated and no injuries were reported, according to the fire department,...

The Long Bridge project aims to speed up railway traffic by constructing a new span over the Potomac River in addition to the existing bridge. The project is set to be completed by 2030. Transportation Reporter Adam Tuss reports.

Tensions from the politically charged upcoming election are spilling over to the road signs that sprout up along so many streets. Residents are complaining of signs being stolen and sign vandalism.  “Whenever they have the [former President Donald] Trump signs, they are taken away and replaced with [Vice President] Haris signs,” Arlingto...

A Northern Virginia family shares their story as families and schools across the D.C. area try to help young people struggling with drug use.

A Northern Virginia man accused of having an affair with his family’s au pair, and then working with her to kill his wife and another man has been denied bond.

Disturbing police body camera video shows a Virginia woman charging a Fairfax County police officer with a knife moments before he shot and killed her. Just after 10 a.m. Sept. 16, a 14-year veteran knocked on 33-year-old Sydney Wilson’s apartment door to perform a welfare check in Reston. As the officer identified himself, Wilson slammed the door ...