Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia)

RICHMOND – Chesapeake-based minister E.W. Jackson won the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor and state Sen. Mark Obenshain won the nomination for attorney general at the state party convention Saturday. Jackson won the nomination in the...

RICHMOND – State Sen. Mark Obenshain beat out Del. Rob Bell for the Republican nomination for attorney general at the party convention Saturday. As of press time delegates were on their fourth vote to determine the GOP lieutenant governor nominee,...

Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli gave the following remarks in accepting the Republican nomination for governor at the Republican Party of Virginia nominating convention in Richmond Saturday: "I think you now have a better sense of why I’m one of...

Say goodbye to A, B and C grades. For the city's elementary school students, a new grading system is on its way. It looks a lot different from the grades their parents got in school. But leaders promise it will convey more information and encourage...

Coal, a rollback on environmental regulations and access to offshore oil would be at the core of Republican Ken Cuccinelli's agenda if elected Virginia's next governor, the candidate said during a local stop Thursday. Cuccinelli , the state's current...

Virginia-based Vienna Presbyterian Church and a Somerset County-based Christian camp, Summer's Best Two Weeks, on Wednesday withdrew a request to keep from public scrutiny a lawsuit alleging they empowered, enabled and turned a blind eye to the sexual...

There isn't a lot of policy daylight between Del. Rob Bell and Sen. Mark Obenshain, two tough-on-crime Republican lawyers from west of Richmond vying to be the GOP's attorney general nominee. Both were leaders in the fight that culminated in last year's...

Raleigh County authorities are examining a federal judge's ruling in Virginia that held the Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its powers by trying to regulate stormwater runoff in a creek. Before anyone gets hopes up that the special fees imposed...

The Gazette has shut down its office in Frederick, The Washington Post Co. confirmed late Wednesday afternoon. Eighteen full-time and 12 part-time employees were laid off, according to Rima Calderon, vice president of Communications and External...

The sale of the historic Cavalier Hotel could come to a halt next week. That's if a Fairfax County judge on Friday approves a motion filed by attorneys of the longtime owners of the hotel, The Disthene Group Inc. They seek to halt the sale until the...

Virginia Democrats aren't gaga over their nominee for governor, Terry McAuliffe. He has issues. He can't win just by howling about the other guy's. And Ken Cuccinelli's are considerable. What McAuliffe and out-of-power Democrats need, Virginia has in...

Like many of their fruity brethren, pears and strawberries have provided the subject for innumerable watercolor still lifes in the past — yet most of these earnest efforts have produced middling if not worse results at best. But not so with the...