COURTHOUSE — Ashton Holliday-Goulart brings a keen interest in native plants and a desire to work with home gardeners to her new position as the horticulture extension agent in Virginia Beach.

VIRGINIA BEACH — Keegan Chetwynd, director and chief executive officer of the Military Aviation Museum in southern Virginia Beach, recently earned national recognition for his dedication to the ...

VIRGINIA BEACH — Move over King Charles III. Virginia Beach has a new king. William “Bill” Lascara, a shareholder and attorney with Pender & Coward, became the 49th king of the Virginia Beach Neptune ...

VIRGINIA BEACH — A decade or so ago, I read aloud to my two young children to settle them down before they went to sleep. I remember sitting in the rocking chair in the room they shared to read from ...

Public records offer a glimpse – if an incomplete one – of how dark money moves. Freedom Virginia in 2021 received nearly $3.5 million in contributions and grants, far more than $352,100 in its ...

VIRGINIA BEACH — Before another brush fire can break out, Indian River Plantation and West Neck Village neighborhood associations may look into having the former golf course in the middle of their ...

An entrance to West Neck, a community grappling with the loss of the former Signature at West Neck golf course and its potential development. [John-Henry Doucette/The Princess Anne Independent News] ...

COURTHOUSE — People showed up in droves on Tuesday, Oct. 17, for a long last round in a fight some figured they wouldn’t win. They packed City Hall all the same. For the first time at the new building ...

Ed. — The following are responses to questions posed by The Independent News to candidates for mayor. Answers to our questions in this series generally are not edited, aside from obvious punctuation ...

VIRGINIA BEACH — It’s a long way from the bustling city of Seoul, South Korea, to the quiet rural community that surrounds Charity United Methodist Church. Still, the Rev. Stephen Lee said that he’s ...

Ed. — Archived from the Sunday, Dec. 1, print edition. This file image shows the northwest corner of Indian River and Princess Anne roads in Pungo. The Blue Line, a city-services boundary at Indian ...

BACK BAY — Virginia Beach celebrated contributions to the farming industry during National Agriculture Week in late March with an awards banquet and a dressed-up crowd that was happy to finally gather ...