"Virginia Adopts: Campaign for 1,000" has goal of matching 1,000 children in foster care with adoptive families.
Here are five things to know about politics and government in Fairfax County.
The Fairfax Connector route will serve the new Silver Line stations in Tysons, but residents on Creek Crossing Road say it's unsafe.
The governor, at the center of an ethics controversy, told WTOP Radio on Tuesday he will give back thousands of dollars in gifts to Star Scientific CEO Jonnie Williams.
The attorney general has requested that funds from a federal Medicaid settlement be put into the Virginia Retirement System for law enforcement officers.
County supervisors will consider improvements to the Fairfax County Parkway, the Columbia Pike Streetcar line and 700 new parking spaces near McLean Metro Station.
The National Association of Counties awarded Fairfax County for a variety of programs.
Top news of the week from our Patches around Virginia and Washington.
The Virginia governor apologized Tuesday amid an ethics scandal, maintaining he did nothing wrong.
Virginia's governor has spent this week abroad, putting some distance between himself and an ethics investigation.
Virginia sees 50 percent drop in 16-year-olds getting a driver's license compared to 1995 statistics. Costly car insurance, rising gas prices, social media, crash statistics all play a role in fewer teens getting behind the wheel, study says.
Jackson's proposed constitutional amendment to give home-schoolers equal funding would hurt public school students, Democrats say.
A new TV ad criticizes McAuliffe for not setting up GreenTech plants in Virginia.
Kincaid, a 26-year veteran, defeated interim Sheriff Mark Sites on Tuesday in a Democratic Caucus in Fairfax.
The State Board of Elections launched a new online registration system Tuesday.
McDonnell announced that he and his family have paid back two loans with interest to the Star Scientific CEO.
Five days after the deadline, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor filed a corrected campaign finance report listing all of his donors.
Either Mark Sites or Stacey Kincaid, both vets of the Sheriff's Office, will be selected Tuesday to run in November's elections.
Northern Virginia notables weigh in.
Is candidate’s defense of sodomy ban aimed at child predators or you?
Virginia's candidates for governor focus on social issues, transportation, economy, gay rights Saturday in the first debate of the 2013 election season.
The candidates will meet Saturday for the first debate of the 2013 election season at The Homestead in Hot Springs, Va.
Jackson reported $118,608 for June but failed to itemize donors for a large chunk of change.
But governor sees ratings dip — especially among women.
Mark Sites and Stacey Kincaid, both vets of the Sheriff's Office, are competing for the Democratic nomination ahead of November's elections.
Terry McAuliffe holds a 4-point lead over Ken Cuccinelli in the race for governor; the attorney general's race is in a near dead heat.
CityLine Partners has proposed more than 700 interim parking spots near the McLean Metro station.
MWAA head says construction delays will push Metro rail line back by eight weeks, making January opening unlikely.
GOP gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli says his support of Virginia's anti-sodomy law is about protecting children from sexual predators; opponent Terry McAuliffe says it's another example of Cuccinelli's "anti-gay" agenda.
Mark Sites and Stacey Kincaid will discuss their views and ideas for the Fairfax County Sheriff's Office Wednesday in Fairfax.
McAuliffe raised $1.9 million in June compared to Cuccinelli's $1.1 million.
Saturday meeting will review new zoning laws, application information for daycare providers hoping to get a special permit from the county to care for more kids.
A new ad from gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe questions opponent Ken Cuccinelli's role in a dispute over natural gas.
Cuccinelli discussed his comprehensive plan for supporting Virginia's 840,000 veterans during two events at Herndon's Hilton Washington-Dulles.
Workers furloughed around the DC metropolitan area due to sequestration express concern about their plight.
Virginia senator says budget sequester was intentionally designed to be “so stupid that no rational person would choose to go down that path.”