Alexandria Mayor Alyia Gaskins said the city is prepared to accommodate thousands of incoming federal workers while working to prevent the displacement of a major science agency during her monthly conversation with ALXnow on Tuesday.
The federal government recently announced that over 2,700 HUD employees will relocate to the National Science Foundation building in Alexandria, potentially displacing 1,800 NSF workers who currently occupy the space.
Alexandria’s government offices will be closed on Friday, July 4, but that doesn’t mean you still can’t have a good time.
Here’s what you need to know about city services on Independence Day.
Another anti-Tump rally is being planned in Alexandria.
Organizers describe the July 17 (Thursday) rally as a day of nonviolent action to protest “attacks posed on our civil and human rights” by the Trump administration. The “Good Trouble Lives On” event coincides with the July 17, 2020, death of civil rights icon U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-GA).
Two months after closing due to staffing issues, the Dollar Tree at 3811 Mount Vernon Avenue in Arlandria has reopened.
The store reopened to the public on June 30. A lone staffer told ALXnow that several employees have been hired to keep it up and running.
Be ready for some wet weather, because the National Weather Service has issued a Flood Watch for Alexandria and the surrounding area from 1 to 11 p.m.
At 1 p.m., the weather service also issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch that is in effect until 9 p.m. The NWS stated that flash flooding, caused by excessive rainfall, is possible.
ALIVE!, Alexandria’s largest organization preventing food and housing insecurity, has announced new leadership for its executive committee as the organization enters fiscal year 2026.
The nonprofit, founded in 1969, serves approximately 20,000 individuals each month by providing food, transitional shelter, financial assistance, eviction prevention, and furniture and household essentials. Carlton Willis, a fifth-generation member of Alfred Street Baptist Church, where he serves as a deacon, has been elected as the new board president, following his previous service as vice president.
Good morning, Alexandria! Today is Tuesday, July 1, the 182nd day of 2024. There are 183 days left in the year.
⛈️ Today’s weather: Showers and thunderstorms are likely, mainly after 4 p.m. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Increasing clouds, with a high near 91 degrees. Heat index values as high as 102 degrees. Southwest wind 6 to 9 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph. The chance of precipitation is 60%—new rainfall amounts between a half and three-quarters of an inch are possible.
A 42-year-old man suspected of stabbing his son in the arm and then himself, in fact was not stabbed and died from a gunshot wound to his chest, according to dispatch reports and the Alexandria Police Department.
APD said that Daniel Foster was pronounced dead at the hospital after allegedly stabbing his 21-year-old son in the arm with a pocket knife in a West End apartment on Sunday evening (June 29) in the 6000 block of Edsall Road. Foster was found with what were believed to be knife wounds to his chest, but, in fact, he was fatally wounded by a gunshot.
Alexandria will soon embark on a two-and-a-half-year-long sewer separation project to reduce flooding in the city’s Westover neighborhood.
The city says that the sanitary sewer network in Westover, including parts of Bashford Avenue, Powhatan Street, Second Street, Colonial Avenue and Vernon Street, can’t handle intense storms. On Thursday, July 10, the city will host a design information meeting on their solution — the $2.6 million Colonial Avenue Sanitary Sewer Separation Project.
The City of Alexandria is under a flood watch until 11 p.m. tonight, as the National Weather Service warns of potential flooding from excessive rainfall across the Washington metropolitan area.
The flood watch, issued at 3:07 p.m. on Monday by the NWS Baltimore, MD/Washington, DC office, covers Alexandria, along with Arlington, Falls Church, and other parts of northern Virginia. The alert remains in effect until 11 p.m. EDT this evening.
Alexandria’s plan for the development of its West End just won a top award from the Virginia Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA).
After years of discussion, the City Council adopted the AlexWest Small Area Plan last December. With the massive WestEnd mixed use development working to unveil several new buildings, and Inova at Landmark poised to open in 2028, the plan recommends significant expansion of Dora Kelley Nature Park, a new public park adjacent to the Winkler Botanical Preserve, and a new park at the corner of Seminary Road and N. Beauregard Street.
