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Update at 8:25 p.m. -- Now the remainder of Arlington is under another Severe Thunderstorm Warning. https://twitter

The History and Return of Press Briefings The History and Return of Press Briefings March 11, 2021 Many administrations have entered and exited the White House in the last 100 years. However, what has remained constant over time is how the President and press communicate through conferences and briefings. Woodrow Wilson held the first press conference in March 1913, giving the public a means by which to question their elected officials. Those press conferences became an essential component of t...

(Update 4:25 p.m.) Metro is fast-tracking repairs on the Yellow Line bridge and tunnels. The transit agency is preparing for a major capital project to rehab the 3,000-foot-long Yellow Line bridge that crosses over the Potomac River, connecting D.C. to Arlington. Upgrades will also be made to the fire suppression system on the bridge which is, as the release notes, “beyond its useful life.” Additionally, the steel-lined tunnels connecting the Pentagon Metro station to the bridge and the bri...

February 5, 2021 at 12:35pm As if the pandemic wasn’t bad enough, there’s now an apparent rabies outbreak in Arlington County. Two days after the county warned of a possible rabies exposure in the East Falls Church neighborhood, animal control has captured two additional raccoons “showing neurological signs consistent with rabies.” The raccoons were both captured in residential north Arlington neighborhoods: one on the 4300 block of 37th Road N., in the Old Glebe neighborhood near Glebe...

December 29, 2020 at 9:00am A potentially rabid raccoon with a taste for human flesh is on the loose in the Donaldson Run neighborhood. The raccoon bit a person last week on the 4200 block of 25th Street N., two blocks from Taylor Elementary School, according to the Animal Welfare League of Arlington. It ran off and “has not been located.” Two other raccoons with rabies-like symptoms have been removed from the neighborhood by animal control officers over the past month, AWLA said. Arlington...

Complaints over helicopter noise in Arlington are likely to soon be better tracked by the federal government. On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a veto-proof version of the $740 billion National Defense Authorization Act, and it includes a provision directing the Secretary of Defense to "develop a process to receive, track, and analyze complaints