It may roll in like a lion and come out like lamb, but March has a whole lot of great theater to roar about. Check out these ...

Finally, some information you can use from this column. In an unpleasant surprise, in mid-January I looked at my online ...

Alexandria is a terrific sports town. Current and former Olympians hail from Alexandria. Noah Lyles, an Alexandria City High School alum and sprinter who has won three Olympic medals, is the ...

When the National Park Service rejected the city’s proposed pump station in Waterfront Park last month, it wasn’t just a planning setback – it was the reaffirmation of a 1981 promise.

Recent studies and surveys estimate 60% of pet dogs are overweight or obese. A majority of adults are also considered overweight or obese in the United States.

City Manager Jim Parajon proposed a nearly $1 billion operating budget for fiscal year 2027 to City Council last week.

By Jim McGrath Jennifer Hammond, the hitting coach for the Alexandria Aces, made statewide history in September 2025, and it almost went completely unnoticed. And for Hammond, that was fine. “I was ...

By Sydney Kodama | skodama@alextimes.com Jim O’Connell didn’t know he was writing a book when he started. O’Connell, a former journalist for Bloomberg News, told the Times he wrote vignettes about his ...

Alexandria has a long history of women business owners, but the city is not an outlier. In the 1700s, many American women owned hospitality businesses. As many as two-thirds of Virginia taverns in the ...

The National Park Service has denied the City of Alexandria’s request to build a pumphouse in Waterfront Park, Mayor Alyia ...

By Sydney Kodama | skodama@alextimes.com In Alexandria, Black history is celebrated year round. Artura Jackson, assistant ...

Sandy Marks clinched the Democratic Party’s nomination for a recently-vacated City Council seat, setting up a race in April.