Updated 3/27/2024 -- The Washington Capitals and Washington Wizards are not, in fact, coming to Potomac Yard It's official: the Washington Capitals and the Washington Wizards are moving to Alexandr...

Updated 6:25 p.m. -- The Potomac Yard arena won't be moving forward. The City of Alexandria just announced that the city is ending negotiations related to the Potomac Yard Entertainment District and...

Virginia lawmakers are meeting today to consider a deal to bring the Washington Capitals and Wizards to Potomac Yard, the Washington Post first reported. The teams could be moving to a new mixed-use...

Former Bishop Ireton High School student Dave Grohl performed with other members of his band, Foo Fighters, this weekend on Saturday Night Live. Grohl attended Bishop Ireton High School but eventua...

Virginia State Sen. Louise Lucas (D-18) says Monumental Sports and Entertainment owner Ted Leonsis can afford to pay for the entire $2 billion Potomac Yard arena project, as well as supporting...

Updated at 2:30 p.m. -- Vice President Kamala Harris managed to stitch a visit to Old Town knitting store fibre space (1319 Prince Street) into the day's agenda. It was the vice president's first...

A new Change.org petition opposing the new Washington Wizards/Capitals arena at Potomac Yard is slowly gaining steam. Last week, Ted Leonsis, the CEO of Monumental Sports & Entertainment and owner of...

Single-family-only zoning is no more in Alexandria. Alexandria’s City Council voted unanimously at around 1 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 29, to approve the Zoning for Housing/Housing for All initiative....

After some prodding from City Council member Kirk McPike, a couple of Alexandria crosswalks could get a Pride-themed makeover next year. A presentation heading to the City Council on Tuesday, Nov. 28...

Alexandria City High School seniors with a 3.25 cumulative grade point average or higher are now eligible for automatic admission to George Mason University. The deal for the pilot program between...

Good Thursday morning, Alexandria! 🌥️ Today's weather: Expect mostly cloudy skies and a high temperature of approximately 54°F, accompanied by a south wind blowing at 6 to 11 mph. On Thursday night,...

A man was stabbed to death Sunday afternoon in Del Ray, and a suspect is in custody, according to the Alexandria Police Department. APD was notified at around 4:25 p.m. that a person was stabbed in...

Alexandria City Council Member Alyia Gaskins defeated her two Democrat rivals on Tuesday, effectively becoming mayor-elect as she faces no opposition in November. The win makes Gaskins the first...

Good Thursday morning, Alexandria! ☀️ Today's weather: Sunny, with a high near 85. Northwest wind 7 to 9 mph. At night: A slight chance of showers after 2am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 65. West...

Author, Ohio Senator, Del Ray resident and yarn bomb victim J.D. Vance has been tapped as the Vice President pick for Republican Candidate Donald Trump. Vance moved into an over $1.5 million home in...

The Friends of the Mount Vernon Trail is rallying support to get a section of roadway into Old Town North converted into a bike lane. The plan would be to take the right lane of East Abingdon Drive...

Alexandria Police Department officers are being hailed as heroes after resuscitating a lifeless baby boy after its mother suddenly gave birth in Arlandria last month. APD officers David Hiltz and...

Amtrak said last year was one for the books for train travel around Virginia and the Alexandria station had the state's second-highest ridership in the southeastern United States. Just behind...

Updated at 9:45 a.m. -- President Joe Biden will visit the Virginia Theological Seminary at 1:45 p.m. on Tuesday, according to the White House. "I am thrilled that the President is visiting Alexand...

Alexandria could be converting another block of King Street to a pedestrian-only zone this spring. At a meeting of the Waterfront Commission earlier this week, city staff presented both plans for a...

Alexandria Mayor Justin Wilson will not seek a third term in office. Wilson made the announcement in his monthly newsletter on Friday. "Next year, Alexandria will choose a new Mayor," Wilson wrote....

The pressure was on. After a COVID-delay of more than a year, Alexandria sprinter Noah Lyles was finally racing against the top runners in the world at the Tokyo Olympics. The gun fired, and 19.74...

The Vision Zero goal of zero roadway deaths and severe injuries is daunting, but the City announced that it closed 2023 with zero traffic fatalities. In a release, the Department of Transportation...

Good Monday morning, Alexandria! 🌥️ Today’s weather: Mostly sunny with a high near 65. Partly cloudy tonight with a low around 46. 🚨 You need to know An economic analysis said that while revenue...

No arrest has been made, but the Alexandria Police Department is investigating a connection between a break-in at a restaurant in Potomac Yard and a nearby apartment complex earlier this month. The...

Alexandria City Public Schools says it will not comply with Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s policies restricting transgender services. School Board Chair Michelle Rief and Superintendent Melanie Kay-Wyatt...

After 34 years and no sick leave, James "JJ" Jackson wrapped up his last shift at Fire Station 203 yesterday (Tuesday). Short of a little time in Del Ray and Old Town, Jackson said he's spent every...

By next June, Alexandria could have more Pride-themed decorations around town, including rainbow crosswalks and artwork in the new pedestrian zone. At a City Council meeting earlier this week, City...

The 100 block of King Street has been closed to cars for over a year, and now the city is looking to make the change permanent. At an upcoming meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 5, the Planning Commission is...

"Alexandria City High School" on Thursday night was unanimously chosen as the new name for T.C. Williams High School. The Alexandria School Board voted for the name change for the city's only public...

Old Town's Mount Purrnon Cat Cafe and Wine Bar (109 S. Alfred Street) is taking a dig at neighbor JD Vance after the Trump running mate's "childless cat ladies" comment. A 2021 interview in which...

Alexandria City High School senior Mohommed Abir Rhaman was shocked when he was notified last month that he got a perfect score on the Advanced Placement U.S. History Exam. The notoriously grueling...

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin put politics aside today and ate lunch at Pork Barrel BBQ in Del Ray. Youngkin, who was accompanied by his entourage of bodyguards and staff, ordered iced tea and a...

Good Wednesday morning, Alexandria! ☀️ Today’s weather: Sunny, with a high near 78 turning partly cloudy tonight, with a low around 50. Tomorrow should also be mostly sunny with a high near 79. 🚨...

ALXnow will be running a series of City Council candidate interviews through the local election filing deadline on April 4. Alexandria City Council candidate Charlotte Scherer is running to be...

Del Ray residents did not couch their feelings about losing a neighborhood park to JD Vance's Secret Service protection. The City of Alexandria announced last week that, at the request of the Secret...

A local hardware store in Del Ray that was in danger of closing just got saved by an Alexandria realtor. Jay Portlance bought Executive Lock and Key Service from Chris Harvey just before Christmas...

Noah Lyles is heading to Paris. After winning his final 100 meters at the Olympic trials on Saturday with a time of 9.83 seconds, the Alexandria native and world champion sprinter is heading to his...

(Updated at 4:40 p.m.) An Alexandria man is being held without bond after allegedly carjacking a DASH bus in the West End last Thursday night. Lorenzo Johnson, 33, was arrested after allegedly...

The Potomac Yard arena fight has created a fascinating mix of opponents and supporters who don't adhere to strict political party lines. While Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin and Alexandria's...

(Updated 11 p.m.) Alexandria Mayor Justin Wilson defeated his political rival, former Mayor Allison Silberberg, in Tuesday night's Democratic primary. "Thank you Alexandria," Wilson said at Pork...

We have really bad news for the commentor on the story about JD Vance becoming Trump's running mate who said "I hope secret service doesn’t close the Judy Lowe Park to expand the security buffer!"...

Tatte Bakery & Cafe is opening on Jan. 24 at 515 King Street, staff tell ALXnow. A sign that the restaurant will open in winter 2024 was recently posted outside a main window. Staff inside the...

Alexandria City High School Executive Principal Peter Balas says that violence within the school is being handled and students caught fighting are being dealt with on a case-by-case basis. In a...

A famous tailor who fled Afghanistan with his wife and five children recently opened a new shop in Old Town. Business is slow, but the situation is familiar to Reza Mohammadi. He's started from...

At a recent City Council meeting, Council member John Chapman pushed back against critics of the city's new rainbow crosswalks in Old Town celebrating the LGBTQ community. The crosswalks, a project...

Good Tuesday morning, Alexandria! 🌧️ Today's weather: Expect rain starting mainly after 9am with a high near 53, accompanied by breezy conditions as east winds of 9-14 mph increase to 15-20 mph in...

Good Thusday morning, Alexandria! 🌧️ Today’s weather: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 65. Partly cloudy tonight with a low around 43. Partly sunny tomorrow with a high near 60. 🚨 You need to know...

Protestors calling for a ceasefire in Israel's war with Hamas repeatedly interrupted a reelection campaign event for U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) today in Old Town. Virginia's junior senator spoke...

A man was shot in the leg in the bathroom of a McDonald's in the Landmark area of Alexandria, and the Alexandria Police Department (APD) is on a manhunt for the suspect. APD was notified of a fight...

After two years in development, Misha's Coffee opened its second location in Old Town over the weekend. The new shop is located in a prime spot next to Waterfront Park at 6 Prince Street, and around...

Good Monday morning, Alexandria! 🌤️ Today's weather: Expect mostly sunny conditions with a high close to 79 and a northwest wind at 7 to 10 mph. As evening approaches, the sky will become mostly...

Neighborhoods next to the proposed $2 billion arena at Potomac Yard are against the project, according to results from a recent poll. Of the 496 survey respondents from the Del Ray Citizens Associa...

Alexandria's Troy Isley won his Olympic debut on Monday against middleweight Vitali Bandarenka, and his boxing club at home is eager that he win a medal. The Olympic games have been Isley's dream...

Update at 11 a.m. -- Police arrested a 32-year-old suspect who barricaded herself into her one-bedroom apartment in the Notch 8 apartments in Potomac Yard, at around 3 a.m. after she fell asleep,...

Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS) announced at 6:15 p.m. on Monday that schools and offices would be closed on Tuesday, with students getting a 'traditional snow day' rather than switching to...

Louis Kokonis, an Alexandria City High School math teacher who worked in the school division for over 60 years, died yesterday. Kokonis, 91, was renowned for his devotion to the students. A CBS...

Virginia's House of Delegates voted to pass the arena bill 59-40, sending the proposal to an uncertain future in the Senate.

(Updated at 1:15 p.m.) During the celebration of the grand opening of the Potomac Yard Metro Station, electrician Antonio Jones looked up at the structure he and countless other laborers worked on...

After a dip in 2020, Capital Bikeshare use in Alexandria has been on a rapid rebound and this year surpassed pre-Covid ridership. The network overall hit ridership records this summer. Capital...

Alexandria's King Street pedestrian zone initiative is getting a boost this weekend as the zone's size will double for the next few months. The pilot was approved by the City Council in April and...

The King Street Pedestrian Zone was officially expanded to reach Waterfront Park on Saturday (Nov. 12). Council voted unanimously and without discussion on the permanent conversion of the unit block...

Yesterday's announcement of the possible new arena at Potomac Yard turned a previously scheduled conversation with Mayor Justin Wilson into one of the first public discussions of the contentious...

(Updated on 8/27/23) Alexandria police are on scene of multiple shootings in the city. First, a man was shot in the Arlandria neighborhood around 7:45 p.m. Saturday. The shooting happened on the 3800...

(Updated 2/23) While pro-Potomac Yard arena advocates and lobbyists are making the rounds in Richmond, a group of locals are also knocking on doors in the legislature fighting against the arena....

(Updated at 9 p.m.) No one was injured Friday night (November 19) after a two-alarm fire in a duplex in the heart of Del Ray. The Alexandria Fire Department was called at around 6:16 p.m. after smoke...

Alexandria's Jay and Arline Hoffman just donated $18,500 to wipe out school lunch debts for students at T.C. Williams High School and its Minnie Howard Campus. "These kids can't graduate unless these...

Good Monday morning, Alexandria! ⛈️ Today's weather: Expect showers and thunderstorms, with potential heavy rain, before 5pm and a high of 84°F with southeast winds at 3-8 mph. A 70% chance of 1-2...

In a first for the city since at least the start of the year, there have been no new cases of coronavirus and no new hospitalizations reported in Alexandria. The city's count of total cases stands at...

Good Friday morning, Alexandria! Today's weather is mostly cloudy with a high of 88. There's a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms this morning up until 2 p.m., with showers likely after that....

Alexandria is getting $3.5 million in federal funds to pay for public safety, transit, affordable housing and flooding infrastructure projects, Northern Virginia Congressman Don Beyer (D-8th)...

Updated at 4 p.m. A driver crashed a car into an Old Town business early this morning (Wednesday) and was transported to Inova Alexandria Hospital. The crash into Casa Rosada Artisan Gelato at 111 S....

Alexandria City Public Schools received 88,000 KN95 face masks for all students and staff last week, not long after newly installed Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin issued an executive order removing...

If you haven't heard, this is the city's 275th birthday, and the city is giving itself 275 new trees to celebrate. One of the projects from the Department of Transportation and Environmental Services...

Alexandria's Homegrown Restaurant Group just stumbled across a proverbial goldmine of infant baby formula, and on Friday morning (May 20) they donated 10 cases of Similac Advance to ALIVE!. It could...

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg joined Governor Ralph Northam, Rep. Don Beyer (D-8th) and regional railway leadership at Alexandria's Union Station to mark a $3.7 billion investment in...

A robbery was reported at the Tobacco Hut (3500 Mount Vernon Avenue) in Arlandria. Robbers in black puffy jackets and ski masks reportedly took around $400 from the store and implied that they had...

Good Wednesday morning, Alexandria! ☀️ Today's weather: Expect sunny conditions with a high of around 39 degrees, accompanied by a south wind blowing at 6 to 10 mph. The night will be mostly clear,...

Five Guys is moving its corporate headquarters to Alexandria's Carlyle neighborhood, according to the Washington Business Journal. The burger chain, which opened its first location in Arlington in...

Corey Smedley was sworn in as the 30th Alexandria Fire Chief at City Hall last night. The 48-year-old Smedley, who is the city's first permanent African American Fire Chief, took the oath of office...

Heavy metal band Metallica swung by a record pressing plant a few blocks west of Alexandria earlier this week. The band visited Furnace Record Pressing, a record pressing company that's been in...

It was barely a footnote in the six-hour City Council meeting, most of which was consumed with a tense discussion on School Resource Officers, but towards the end City Council meeting last night the...

Virginia House Majority Leader Del. Charniele Herring (D-46) said that the $2 billion Potomac Yard arena deal is in no man's land and that she doesn't see a path forward for it. Herring, who voted...

The D.C.-based Call Your Mother Deli chain is expanding to Old Town, as first reported by the Washington Business Journal. The company, which was founded in 2018, reportedly signed a lease at the...