Serving southern Virginia Beach, Kempsville and the Oceanfront.

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.

What are your specific qualifications for this office? I’ve lived in VB my entire life and was in VBCPS k-12 grade as were all 3 of my siblings. I’ve seen how the schools work from a student ...

Voters citywide choose two candidates, who can live anywhere in the city, regardless of district. [City of Virginia Beach] THE INDEPENDENT NEWS Ed. — The following are responses to questions posed by ...

KEMPSVILLE — It fell in the weirdly paced week after Christmas, but Friday, Dec. 30, was a normal day for Cyndy Ciccone — just like thousands of others she had logged working at Smith Discount Books ...

VIRGINIA BEACH — On a Saturday this past month, one of two candidates to become the chairperson of the Republican Party of Virginia Beach met with supporters at Mom’s Kitchen, a restaurant in a strip ...

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 ...