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 — Virginia Beach’s comprehensive plan contains hundreds of pages of technical jargon, visionary ideals and pretty pictures from the past and present. It’s meant to provide planners and ...

WEST NECK — The owner of the defunct Signature at West Neck Golf Course has raised the possibility of turning it into a farm and enclosing it in a fence — and pushed back against a suggestion from the ...

KEMPSVILLE — James McArthur and Nathan Tant are 17-year-olds intently focused on getting to the American Poolplayers Association’s Junior Nationals this summer in St. Louis — but they still sound like ...

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 ...

VIRGINIA BEACH — The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is preparing to observe its 10th anniversary in the Brock Environmental Center, which opened in early 2015. Now, on the cusp of their milestone, is a ...

VIRGINIA BEACH — A bill seeking a charter change to reflect the new 10-district local voting system in Virginia Beach faced opposition in the House of Delegates, but not enough to deny it the ...

BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE VIRGINIA BEACH — Six candidates have qualified to run for mayor this year, the largest collection of candidates since Virginia Beach began electing its mayor in 1988. Mayor ...

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 — Virginia Beach residents who are on city water may notice a change to its odor and taste due to routine maintenance that involves temporarily changing the disinfectant used in the water ...

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 ...