Credit NWS

Update - 2:53 p.m. Tuesday  Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell said Tuesday afternoon that the commonwealth was "spared a significant event" with Hurricane Sandy. The brunt of the dama...

Credit Patch

The Fairfax County Office of Elections will be closed Tuesday, so the mail-in deadline has been extended because of Hurricane Sandy. Any applications received Wednesday, Oct. 31 — or when...

Credit Fairfax County

Fairfax County Government Offices will be closed Tuesday, Oct. 30 and employees are granted emergency administrative leave. Emergency service personnel will report as scheduled, accord...

Credit National Weather Service

  For information and updates on Tuesday, Oct. 30, click here.   Update 7:10 p.m. Monday: Hurricane Sandy has morphed into Post-Tropical Cyclone Sandy and is very clos...

Credit Dominion Virginia Power

For Tuesday storm and outage updates, click here.   Update 8:30 p.m. Monday:  More than 80,000 people are now without power in Northern Virginia.  Hurricane Sandy offi...

Credit Courtesy of Fairfax County.

Fairfax County residents can now report the effects of Hurricane Sandy – including downed trees, nonfunctioning traffic lights and more – from their computers. The county has launche...

Credit Phyllis Kirigin

The rain and wind from Hurricane Sandy is expected to leave the DC metro area Wednesday morning, but it may be too late to save Halloween for thousands of local children. Hurricane S...

Credit Mary C. Stachyra

Before Fairfax County's world-renowned Urban Search and Rescue Team assists in major disasters — such as Hurricane Sandy — there is a lot of preparing and waiting involved. Much of that o...