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 ...

Public safety personnel from Virginia Beach respond to the scene of a car that crashed into Smith Discount Books in Virginia Beach on Friday, Dec. 30. The driver of the car faces criminal charges ...

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 — The following information was provided by state and city elections officials. Here is a schedule of in-person voting locations in Virginia Beach and general information for voters ...

VIRGINIA BEACH — The Independent News submitted questions to candidates for Virginia General Assembly races involving districts within or including parts of Virginia Beach, as well as local seats on ...

Alvie Culanding, a long-serving member of the Virginia Beach Sheriff’s Office, is the first Filipino American to serve as a chief deputy here. [John-Henry Doucette/The Princess Anne Independent News] ...

VIRGINIA BEACH — In the front row of an audience gathered at the Philippine Cultural Center of Virginia on Saturday, May 28, a young midshipman sat next to a retired lieutenant commander on a special ...

THE INDEPENDENT NEWS Ed. — The following are responses to questions posed by The Independent News to candidates for the District 7 seat on the Virginia Beach School Board. Answers to our questions in ...

THE INDEPENDENT NEWS Ed. — Due to limited access to some of our distribution sites, I am releasing a PDF version of the current ...

Ed. — From the Sunday, Aug. 13, print edition. In this family photo, Donna Vaughan is seen while serving as the honorary Witch of Pungo during the Pungo Strawberry Festival. Vaughan died in August ...

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 ...

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 ...