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If approved by Virginia lawmakers, Amazon Web Services stands to receive $140 million in economic incentives from the state and up to 15 years of tax breaks for equipment and software. → Read More
The newly viral 76-year-old, who is not actually a grandma, has become the masked, bespectacled face of millions of Argentina soccer fans hoping for glory. → Read More
End single-family zoning? Legalize "missing middle" housing? What to call the policy being considered in Arlington, and elsewhere, depends on whom you ask. → Read More
The company will bring to Arlington what better-known firms have not been able to provide yet: More jobs in a county with growing office vacancies. → Read More
Ed Sanders, 63, a regular at the club, had stopped by for a drink on the night of shooting. He was shot in the back. → Read More
Arlington would be the first locality in Virginia to adopt the increasingly popular voting system as the county heads into a busy spring for local politics. → Read More
In the age of Pete Buttigieg and book bans, the race for a seat on the embattled Loudoun County school board is a case study on sexual orientation and the culture wars. → Read More
“Missing middle” housing is not on the ballot this fall in Arlington County, but the average resident could be forgiven for thinking it was. → Read More
For some Alexandria commuters, there's no comparison to cruising through the Potomac River - one of several alternatives created by their local government during the Metro shutdown. → Read More
Arlington's housing has gotten too expensive for middle-class renters to buy homes. Local lawmakers hope one solution may lie in the county's zoning code. → Read More
A 31-year-old Turks and Caicos resident was arrested and is under investigation in connection with the Oct. 2 killing of Kent Carter, a vice president of the Arlington NAACP. → Read More
The unusual economic-incentives deal had been subject to questions about whether funding a movie theater was an appropriate use of public money. → Read More
The AWS Skills Center is part of the company's effort to expand the local tech workforce as it builds a new headquarters nearby. → Read More
Under the deal, the city would essentially reinvest tax revenue generated by the sale of movie tickets and concessions at a long-awaited cinema in the Founders Row development. → Read More
The city's Black history museum said it had “disassembled” the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, which is now in storage in an undisclosed location. → Read More
Kent Carter, the first vice president of the Arlington NAACP, had been on vacation in the British Caribbean territory to celebrate his 40th birthday. → Read More
A soil-collection ceremony honored the lives of Joseph McCoy and Benjamin Thomas, two Black teenagers who were lynched in Old Town Alexandria. → Read More
As part of the preserve’s transfer, the Winkler family is also donating $4 million to NOVA Parks to maintain and improve the preserve and ramp up programming. → Read More
The tech giant’s Housing Equity Fund is helping to build or preserve 1,260 units in the D.C. area, where some worry the company will worsen the housing crunch. → Read More
Arlington's incentives to Amazon are based on hotel tax revenue, which was expected to increase as the company arrived. But any growth was no match for covid. → Read More