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.

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 ...

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 — District races only appear on ballots of voters who live within the respective districts. Incumbent office holders are denoted by an asterisk. Names appear in ballot order ...

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 ...

Avangrid aims to address concerns and clear up misconceptions about the project, said Megan Higgins, the company’s senior director of new project development. Higgins is the project director for Kitty ...

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] ...

Ed. — From the Sunday, July 9, print edition. An archival photograph of the Virginia Beach Civic Center, better known as The Dome. [City of Virginia Beach] BY JIM ROBERTS VIRGINIA BEACH — Paul Unger ...

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 ...

THE INDEPENDENT NEWS Ed. — The following are responses to questions posed by The Independent News to candidates in the special election for the District 8 seat on Virginia Beach City Council. Answers ...