Sierra Club to Hold Rally Outside Ballston Common Mall

It may be the most exciting thing to happen outside Ballston Common Mall since this happened last year. The Virginia Sierra Club is planning a made-for-TV rally tomorrow at the corner of Wilson...

Arlington Encouraging Businesses to Close Their Doors

Arlington is launching a 'Retail Doors Campaign' as part of its ongoing Green Games business sustainability competition. The campaign encourages individual shops and restaurants to save energy by...

Alexandria Power Plant to Close

(Updated at 12:25 p.m.) The GenOn power plant along the Potomac River in Alexandria will be retired next year, in a victory for local environmental advocates who railed against the coal-fired plant's...

Lopez Receives Conservation Endorsement

Alfonso Lopez, Democratic candidate for the House of Delegates 49th District, has picked up the endorsement of the Virginia League of Conservation Voters, which advocates for environmental...

Morning Notes

Late Night For Harry Potter Fans -- Hundreds of die-hard Harry Potter fans attended midnight and 3:00 a.m. screenings of the last film in the series -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part...

Pete’s to Roll Out Pizza Delivery by Segway

Pete's New Haven Style Apizza in Clarendon may be the first D.C. area pizzeria to offer delivery via Segway. The three-month old restaurant will soon be launching delivery service, and co-owner...

Morning Notes

Waterfall on I-395 -- NBC4 captured video early Thursday morning of a burst pipe underneath the 34th Street Bridge. The rupture sent a torrent of water onto I-395 for more than an hour. The old...

Moran Remarks on One-Year Anniversary of BP Oil Spill

Rep. Jim Moran has released a statement marking the one-year anniversary of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon blowout is a sad reminder of the dangers...

Morning Notes

Pike Realignment in County Legislative Priorities -- The county's wish-list of federal legislative priorities includes a land exchange with the federal government to allow Columbia Pike to be...

Sewer Work Prompts Numerous Fire Department Calls

A pervasive chemical odor has prompted some residents in the neighborhood just north of the Washington Golf and Country Club and east of Glebe Road to call the fire department, thinking something was...

County Sets November Leaf Vacuum Schedule

If your neighborhood is filling up with leaves, don't worry. Help is on the way. Leaf bag collection started on Nov. 1 and will run through Jan. 14. Leaf bags -- which must be biodegradable, not...

Morning Notes

Sushi Rock Decision Deferred -- The county board deferred its decision on whether to grant Sushi Rock (1900 Clarendon Blvd) a live entertainment permit until November, to allow more time for...

Volunteer Opp: Adopt Part of Gulf Branch Nature Center

You've heard of adopting a highway. Now you can adopt something much less noisy and dangerous: a patch of forest at Gulf Branch Nature Center. Naturalist Jennifer Soles is looking for volunteers...

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Arlington Jury Hears Rape Victim's Story -- A 23-year-old University of Maryland graduate student took the witness stand yesterday in the trial of former Henderson Hall Marine Jorge "George"...

To Do Tonight: Entrepreneurship and the Environment

What does entrepreneurship have to do with saving the environment? Martin Ogle, the chief naturalist for the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority, says the same entrepreneurial spirit that leads...