A recently-added City of Falls Church fee for any group wishing to hold a block party around town was removed by the City Council in its work session Monday night. The Council did a preliminary review of all the fees charged for various services that includes a number of increases. [...]

At its work session Monday night, the Falls Church City Council agreed on a basic fee rate to charge for everybody for the impervious surfaces on their business, home or church properties. The rate will be $18 per 200 square feet of impervious surface. There was very little objection to [...]

Falls Church-based Digital Design and Imaging Service has been selected by the Washington, D.C. Office of Planning to produce aerial visualizations for a Building Height Study of the District, the Office of D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray announced Tuesday. The study will explore the impact of strategic changes to the federal [...]

Brad Tidwell announced last Thursday at a meeting of the Falls Church GOP that he intends to seek the Republican nomination in the 53rd House of Delegates district, which includes Falls Church City and parts of Fairfax County. Tidwell is a former chair of the Arlington Falls Church Young Republicans [...]

Ralph Burton Harry of Arlington, Va., retired senior vice president and treasurer of the former National Coal Association, died of cancer at his home Sunday, May 12. Mr. Harry was born March 20, 1930, in Winchester, VA, the son of Oscar Burton Harry and Louise Jones Harry. In addition to [...]

With the June 11 filing deadline approaching, two more Falls Church citizens officially announced they’re throwing their hat in the ring to run for the Falls Church City Council today.

In a statement released today, City of Falls Church Police say they are confident that there is no threat to public safety either on the trail or within the community following an altercation last Tuesday at the intersection of Grove Avenue and the W&OD Trail (West End Park) in which [...]

A  flash fire broke out at George C. Marshall High School in Falls Church Saturday morning and resulted in an estimated $20,000 worth of damage, Fairfax County Fire and Rescue officials reported today. Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department units responded to the fire at the school located at 7731 [...]

HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS Molly Ringwald was in Falls Church Thursday night, the special guest of the O’Keefe PR firm’s 16th birthday party that drew hundreds of invited guests to Ireland’s Four Provinces restaurant A 16th birthday featuring the star of the cult movie classic “16 Candles,” get it? According to reports, [...]

Investigators have determined that the cause of the fire that killed Mary Ann Margaret Gardner and Laura Jeanne Snyder-Gardner this winter was accidental. A wall-mounted natural gas heater in the living room caused the fire, resulting in the death of the mother and daughter, according to a Fairfax County Fire [...]