Fairfax County

Restaurant workers demonstrated outside the Fairfax County, Virginia, government center Tuesday in opposition to a meals tax being considered by the Board of Supervisors to increase county revenue. A meals tax would be assessed on all prepared foods – including drinks sold along with them – from restaurants, cafeterias, coffee shops, food carts and ready-to-eat grocery items. At 1%, a…

A former northern Virginia police officer went on trial in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man suspected of shoplifting a pair of sunglasses. Wesley Shifflett is charged with involuntary manslaughter and reckless discharge of a weapon in the killing of 37-year-old Timothy McCree Johnson in February 2023. Two officers chased and opened fire on Johnson, but Shifflett fired the...

Restaurant workers demonstrated outside the Fairfax County, Virginia, government center in opposition to a meals tax being considered by the Board of Supervisors to increase county revenue. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports.

A jury indicted a Fairfax County man in connection to the slayings of his wife and another man in an alleged plot with the couple’s au pair. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

A jury indicted a Fairfax County, Virginia, man Monday in connection to the slayings of his wife and another man in an alleged plot with the couple’s au pair. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

The latest development in a complex case comes more than a year and a half after Christine Banfield was found stabbed several times in the couple’s bedroom, while an apparent stranger, Joseph Ryan, was found shot.

News4 Transportation Reporter Adam Tuss has everything you need to know about beltway closures in McLean.

A police officer and one other person are hurt after a shooting in Reston, Virginia, on Monday morning involving Fairfax County police, authorities say. Here’s initial info.

A man was hit by a car and killed in Springfield, Virginia early Friday morning, and police are searching for the driver responsible.

Police are investigating a hit-and-run driver who struck and killed a man in Springfield, Virginia on Friday morning.

The county’s Board of Supervisors is voting on new guidelines for how and where data centers should be built. News4’s Drew Wilder reports.

News4’s Tony Perkins spoke to Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis about the Fairfax County after-school contractor who was arrested for unlawfully filming children, their summer crime prevention initiative and 9/11 remembrance events in the area. 

A man convicted for a crash that killed two teen girls walking home from school in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 2022 was sentenced Friday to four years in prison.

A man convicted for a crash that killed two teen girls walking home from school in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 2022 was sentenced Friday to four years in prison.

A new bus route for the Fairfax Connector will link Tysons, Virginia, to Bethesda, Maryland, providing an alternate to Metro’s long train ride between the two locations.

Commuters around the DMV know that traveling between Bethesda, Maryland, and Tysons, Virginia, can seem like an impossible task. A new bus service will soon do most of the hard work. News4’s Adam Tuss reports.

A mother and her partner were arrested after officers found two little boys chained up in an apartment in the Groveton area of Fairfax County, Virginia, authorities said.

Police arrested a mother and her partner after two boys were found chained to a table. News4 Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports. 

A homeless encampment in Reston will be cleared by Fairfax County. Some are trying to help the people who live there with the transition. News4’s Drew Wilder.

An influx of transfer students to the football program at Hayfield High School raised eyebrows among families, but the program’s practices have been found to be above board. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.