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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 attorney William “Bill” Lascara of Pender & Coward is the 49th king of the Neptune Festival. [David B. Hollingsworth/For The Princess Anne Independent News] Ed. — From the Sunday, April ...

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 — 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] ...

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 ...