Vienna/Oakton HomeLifeStyle

Homes Sold Faster and Prices Jumped More

Median sold price for a home in August reached $700,000 in Northern Virginia

Even though sales declined regionally and nationally, inventory was lower and prices grew faster in the Northern Virginia real estate market than nationally in August, according to the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors.

Professionals Learn More About Native Plants

Native plants may be climate change survivors

Imagine a world without forests. Lands unable to control soil erosion, filter and clean water, control temperatures, store carbon, provide building materials, produce food and medicines, or soothe the soul with the sound of rustling leaves.

Transurban and Community Partners Promote Child Passenger Safety

Culinary Instruction Without Borders

Virtual platform takes Melanie Underwood from Fairfax farm to nationwide classroom.

It started with a pastry. Eight-year-old Melanie Underwood trudged through a grassy field in Northern Virginia in search of her father...

Co-Responder Program Needed Immediately

Two officers use tasers; one officer fires four shots, killing 26-year-old man during a mental health crisis inside his family’s McLean home.

Jasper Aaron Lynch’s twin sister wanted to help her brother who was having a mental health crisis. Three Fairfax County Police officers hoped to help, too.

Students Raise Alarm on Senate Bill 656

New policies mandated by Jan. 1, 2023 could hurt LBGTQ+ students.

Does every student in a Virginia public school curriculum, Black, Indigenous, students of color, disabled, immigrant, and others, deserve to be accurately represented?

Beagles on the Hunt for Homes

Area shelters and rescues assist in placement of research-bred beagles.

Sniffing out the prospects of finding love connections, Beagles formerly destined for lives as research or testing subjects, are now putting enthusiastic noses to the search for much easier and pain-free lives as beloved family companions...

Reston Association Chooses New CEO

One-on-one interview with Mac Cummins, AICP

Church Street Vision Project Gets Town Council Approval

Within the next couple of years, the properties at the corner of Church Street NW and Lawyer’s Road NW will be transformed from two, dated and aging buildings

Exceptional Design Awards

Fairfax County is now accepting submissions for the James M. Scott Exceptional Design Awards.

Merrifield Center Renamed Sharon Bulova Center for Community Health

Last month, the Board of Supervisors, elected officials and others gathered to rename Merrifield Center.

Vienna Wireless Society Participates in 2022 National Field Day, June 25-26

Public invited to see how it works, try it out.

Local amateur radio operators (“hams”) will join thousands nationwide...

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