ALXnow Daily Update

ALXnow Daily Update: September 15, 2026

Safe-streets advocates are pressing Alexandria to put cameras at stop signs near schools after logging 241 near-miss reports citywide, and Gov. Abigail Spanberger toured

ALXnow Daily Update: September 14, 2026

Early voting in Alexandria opens Friday, Sept. 18, ahead of a Nov. 3 ballot featuring U.S. Senate and 8th Congressional District races plus three constitutional amendment

ALXnow Daily Update: September 11, 2026

Alexandria City Public Schools says it will respond to parents' requests to reinstate school bus routes by Sept. 30, after Arlandria families told the School Board that i

ALXnow Daily Update: September 10, 2026

Alexandria's DASH ridership climbed 10% last fiscal year to more than 6.9 million riders, even as Virginia studies folding DASH into a single Northern Virginia bus system

ALXnow Daily Update: September 9, 2026

Mayor Alyia Gaskins told City Council she does not see a role for Flock cameras in Alexandria, while Police Chief Tarrick McGuire defended the city's 61 license plate rea

ALXnow Daily Update: September 8, 2026

A pedestrian was struck and killed on I-395 in Alexandria Monday night, and thousands of Dominion Energy customers lost power today after a transformer failure near Mount

ALXnow Daily Update: September 4, 2026

Overnight thunderstorms knocked out power to thousands of Alexandria homes and prompted multiple water rescues, leaving downed trees and dark traffic signals across the c

ALXnow Daily Update: September 3, 2026

Alexandria City Council is weighing an ordinance that would give furloughed federal employees a 90-day extension to pay personal property taxes once a shutdown ends, and

ALXnow Daily Update: September 2, 2026

Alexandria's median rent slipped 2.8% year-over-year in August to $2,205 but remains 15% above pre-pandemic levels, while state Sen. Elizabeth Bennett-Parker joined Democ

ALXnow Daily Update: September 1, 2026

Alexandria's City Hall renovation has slipped 10 weeks to a fall 2028 reopening after crews found asbestos in unexpected parts of the 1960s addition, and Mayor Alyia Gask

ALXnow Daily Update: August 31, 2026

Police arrested a suspect in July's fatal shooting on Holmes Run Parkway, and the Alexandria City School Board pressed ahead with its confidential search for the city's n

ALXnow Daily Update: August 28, 2026

Alexandria parents told the School Board that new ACPS walk zones have pushed their children off school buses and onto routes they consider unsafe, and Acting Superintend

ALXnow Daily Update: August 27, 2026

Housing Alexandria advised residents at an Arlandria property to stay indoors as ICE reported arrests in the city and across the region, and an Alexandria man who worked

ALXnow Daily Update: August 26, 2026

Alexandria City Public Schools posted higher SOL pass rates in every subject area this year, even as failure rates stayed highest among students with disabilities, studen

ALXnow Daily Update: August 25, 2026

ACPS is raising breakfast and lunch prices more steeply than in recent years, and Amtrak will run some trips out of Alexandria instead of D.C. for nine days in October wh

ALXnow Daily Update: August 24, 2026

Alexandria City Public Schools opened the year for more than 15,000 students under a new bell-to-bell phone ban and redistricted school boundaries, while an Old Town prop