Good Monday morning, Alexandria!
🌦️ Today’s weather: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 76 degrees. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph. Scattered showers tonight, mainly between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 64 degrees. Southeast wind 5 to 8 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. The chance of precipitation is 50%. Tuesday will be partly sunny, with a high near 82 degrees. West wind 5 to 7 mph.
Virginia’s Department of Rail and Public Transportation has just released their draft six- year improvement program for fiscal year 2026, totaling roughly $7 billion. The funds cover both operational costs and larger sums for capital improvement projects statewide.
The City of Alexandria, for example, will get money to help cover the $200,000 operational cost for their GO Alex program, which is the city’s outreach program to get residents to ride transit, carpool and commute by bicycle. Hampton Roads’ transportation department will receive funds towards replacing two large buses, a project that will total $1.6 million – and that’s just one of their more than 30 plus capital improvement projects. Localities depend on the state money to update the equipment used to serve the public in various regions of Virginia.
The Alexandria Health Department (AHD) is notifying residents about potential measles exposures in northern Virginia after confirming the state’s first case of 2025. Health officials are currently working to identify people who may have been exposed to this highly contagious virus at two locations in mid-April.
The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) has pinpointed possible exposure sites at Kaiser Permanente medical centers in Woodbridge and Fredericksburg. People who visited the Advanced Urgent Care at Kaiser Permanente Caton Hill Medical Center in Woodbridge on April 15 between 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. might have been exposed.
Good Sunday morning, Alexandria!
☀️ Today’s weather: Partly sunny, with a high near 78 degrees. North wind around 8 mph. Tonight, there will be a slight chance of showers after 2 a.m. Increasing clouds, with a low around 57 degrees. East wind 3 to 7 mph. The chance of precipitation is 20%. Mostly cloudy on Monday, with a high near 76 degrees. Southeast wind 6 to 10 mph.
Early Sunday morning, the Alexandria Police Department (APD) launched a death investigation after finding a man’s body in the street on the 700 block of N. Pitt Street.
The APD shared this information on social media at 4:21 a.m. on April 20.
A man was shot to death Saturday night (April 19) in the parking lot of an apartment complex in Alexandria’s West End.
The Alexandria Police Department found an adult male with a light pulse and suffering from two gunshot wounds in the parking lot of the Canterbury Square apartment complex near Holmes Run and Duke Street at around 10:15 p.m, according to the police scanner.
Good Saturday morning, Alexandria!
☀️ Today’s weather: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 86 degrees. Southwest wind 11 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Tonight will be mostly cloudy, with a low around 66 degrees. Southwest wind 6 to 10 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Sunday will be partly sunny, with a high near 76 degrees. North wind 6 to 9 mph.
Starting Monday, April 21, Alexandria’s Department of Transportation and Environmental Services is rolling out its annual street maintenance program.
The project, which runs through November 2025, aims to resurface about 50 lane miles of road each year and repair concrete curbs and gutters.
We made it to Friday in Alexandria! Here’s a look at our top stories of the week.
Our top post was on the plan to close Waterfront Park and Point Lumley Park for two years. It’s part of the city’s efforts to fight flooding by rebuilding sections of sea wall and installing a pump station to recirculate floodwaters to the Potomac River.
Alexandria’s Independent Community Policing Review Board unanimously opposes proposed changes to its authority to investigate allegations of police misconduct.
Earlier this month, the board opposed ordinance changes reducing its subpoena power, as well as a proposal to let the City Council act as a final arbiter on whether cases are investigated in the event of an impasse between the Board and the Independent Policing Auditor. The changes were drawn up by a subcommittee, which includes Vice Mayor Sarah Bagley and Council Member Canek Aguirre.
Good Friday morning, Alexandria!
☀️ Today’s weather: Increasing clouds, with a high near 78 degrees. South wind 6 to 11 mph increasing to 12 to 17 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 29 mph. It will be partly cloudy tonight, with a low around 63 degrees. South wind 10 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. There will be increasing clouds on Saturday, with a high near 86 degrees. Southwest wind 11 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.
