Arlington County police are investigating gunfire along Columbia Pike.
The shooting happened Friday night, shortly before midnight. Initial reports suggest that several shots were fired during a fight among a large group of teens near the intersection of S. Taylor Street and the Pike, a block or two west of the Harris Teeter store.
The still faint light at the end of the tunnel grows stronger week by week for Columbia Pike.
But that may be cold comfort for those facing at least 12 more months before years of construction are wrapped up.
Mary Hynes admits to being a late bloomer on transportation and transit issues.
“I did not start out as a transportation person — at all,” she acknowledged.
A Sterling man is facing charges after allegedly pulling a gun on a tow truck driver along Columbia Pike.
The incident happened around 4 p.m. Sunday at the CVS parking lot near Penrose Square.
A half-mile section of Columbia Pike that closed last year for an expansion of Arlington National Cemetery is scheduled to reopen next week.
The portion of the Pike between S. Nash Street and S. Joyce Street will reopen in its new alignment “on or about” Monday, Sept. 16, ANC announced in a press release. The following traffic patterns will change.
A halal chicken restaurant based on Langston Blvd has opened a sister eatery on Columbia Pike, with a grand opening expected later this month.
Charga on the Pike is the second venture of Charga Grill, an eatery whose original location at 5151 Langston Blvd surged in popularity after claiming the No. 1 spot on The Washington Post’s ranking of the best casual restaurants in the D.C. area in 2022.
Arlington County police are investigating a pair of gun crimes that happened along Columbia Pike on Monday.
The first happened in front of the Arlington Drafthouse around 3:45 a.m., when a fight in the middle of Columbia Pike was followed by several shots. No one was reported to be struck by the gunfire.
Columbia Pike is blocked due to a snapped utility pole and downed wires.
The incident happened along the ongoing construction zone near S. George Mason Drive, which has also seen previous emergency closures due to crews puncturing gas lines. Video posted today on social media by local public safety watcher Dave Statter shows a truck striking low-hanging wires and breaking the pole in half.
Though Summer Restaurant Week has now come to a close, some restaurants in Arlington and Falls Church are continuing the deals for a little longer.
Sabores Tapas on Columbia Pike, SER in Ballston and The Falls in Falls Church are among several businesses in the area to extend discounts on multi-course brunch, lunch and dinner menus past the official end of Restaurant Week last weekend.
The demise of an anticipated development project at a busy Columbia Pike intersection has left a social and economic void in South Arlington.
It has also left many fingers pointing at an unnamed grocery tenant — which evidence suggests may have been an Amazon Fresh — for its role in the project’s failure.
The Arlington County Board has approved a $4 million land purchase to build a new Columbia Pike fire station.
Fire Station 7 is slated to be built on two parcels of land next to Serrano Apartments at 5519 Columbia Pike — near Bailey’s Crossroads and about two miles away from the former Fire Station 7 in Fairlington that shuttered in 2019.
A new trail connecting Columbia Pike to the Arlington Cemetery Metro station could come later than anticipated due to unexpected environmental assessment requirements.
A request to have Arlington County assume control over a portion of the Arlington Memorial Trail project — previously known as the Arlington National Cemetery Wall Trail — is scheduled for consideration at an Arlington County Board meeting on Monday.
