Oakton
LATEST NEWS
Lake Anne jazz festival returns to raise funds for music education
The Mykle Lyons Commemorative Concert and Jazz Festival will return to Lake Anne Plaza in Reston this Saturday (Aug. 31). For its fourth year, the annual celebration of Lyons, a jazz musician and longtime Reston resident who died in 2021, will seek to continue his legacy by raising funds to create a music education initiative for Reston Association.
2 people die in hospital after shooting in Sterling; LCSO investigating
LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. (DC News Now) — The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) said deputies are investigating a homicide after a double shooting left two people dead in Sterling on Wednesday. Just after 4:30 a.m., deputies were called to the 21000 block of Ridgetop Circle for an argument. There, LCSO said deputies found a man […]
Here is what’s happening on Labor Day weekend in Central Virginia
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - Summer is coming to a close, but that doesn’t mean you can’t end it in style. Labor Day is right around the corner, and there will be tons of events all around Central Virginia. Louisa will have its Labor Fest beginning this Friday and...
Mayor’s Office on Latino Affairs to host 3rd annual DC Afro Latino Fest
WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — The Mayor’s Office on Latino Affairs is set to host the 3rd annual D.C. Afro Latino Fest on Aug. 31. The free event will be held from noon until 9 p.m. at Franklin Park in Northwest. The fest’s mission is to highlight the diversity of the Latino community in the […]
Commanders' home stadium has new name
Washington Commanders reach a deal to rename their home field Northwest Stadium The Washington Commanders’ home field now will be known as Northwest Stadium after the team announced an agreement Tuesday with Northwest Federal Credit Union. The team announced an eight-year deal to rename the place that was known as FedEx Field from 1999 until several months ago. FedEx ended its naming-rights agreement in February, two years before it was...
Jerami Grant, Hour Generation Foundation Enchants With Inaugural Dream Gala
The Hour Generation Foundation hosted the inaugural Dream Gala, a storybook-themed event, to raise funds and awareness for local literacy initiatives, with co-hosts including IDK and authors Jason Reynolds and Christina Wilds. The post Jerami Grant, Hour Generation Foundation Enchants With Inaugural Dream Gala appeared first on The Washington Informer.
Honor Flight Kentucky delivers priceless memories for veterans
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - It was an amazing and often emotional day for dozens of Kentucky veterans. Nearly 70 veterans traveled on the Honor Flight Saturday to Washington, D.C. It’s a one-day free trip for veterans to see memorials built for them. The day started very early Saturday morning...
Varun Shankar joins The Washington Post as new Washington Wizards reporter
Announcement from Sports Editor Jason Murray, Deputy Sports Editor Matt Rennie and Sports Assignment Editor Mark Selig:. We are excited to announce that Varun Shankar is joining The Post as our new Washington Wizards reporter. Varun was most recently a summer intern at The Post, where he covered a variety...
Keith Lee visits DC restaurant Jerk at Nite, pays for 200 meals
WASHINGTON - Viral TikToker and food critic Keith Lee visited D.C. restaurant Jerk at Nite and left a generous tip along with payment for 200 platters for people in the community. The Caribbean restaurant recently experienced an electrical fire at their H Street location in Northeast, D.C. During Lee's recent...
What’s next for the Carlyle neighborhood after the Patent and Trademark Office downsizing?
On the eve of an annual report on the city’s economy from the Alexandria Economic Development Partnership, ALXnow sat down with AEDP CEO Stephanie Landrum to discuss the future of development in three areas of the city: Carlyle, the Landmark-Van Dorn Corridor, and Potomac Yard. These will be broken up into a multi-part series covering each location.
It’s essential to note our commitment to transparency:
Our Terms of Use acknowledge that our services may not always be error-free, and our Community Standards emphasize our discretion in enforcing policies. As a platform hosting over 100,000 pieces of content published daily, we cannot pre-vet content, but we strive to foster a dynamic environment for free expression and robust discourse through safety guardrails of human and AI moderation.