New Reston Voting Precinct Proposed As Fairfax County Plans Dec. 8 Public Hearing
Fairfax County will hold a Dec. 8 hearing on a proposal to create Reston #4 and change two existing voting precincts.
Reston news
Local news about Reston in Fairfax County, from 8 publishers including Restonian, Reston Patch, FFXnow and others. 13 stories in the last 30 days; each links to its publisher.
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Reston Halloween Candy Buyback To Benefit Children’s National, U.S. Troops
Reston families can trade Halloween candy for $1 per pound Nov. 2 while supporting Children’s National and U.S. troops overseas.
Man Charged Following Non-Fatal Shooting in Hutchison
Reston Police District – Detectives from our Major Crimes Bureau have charged a 32-year-old man in connection with a domestic-related shooting that occurred Monday evening. On October 26, at 7:30 p.m., officers responded to the 2200 block…
Person Hospitalized After Getting Stuck Between Metro Car, Platform In Reston
The incident occurred at the Wiehle-Reston East Metro Station.
Reston's South Lakes Drive Park Renovation Would Add Lawn, Move Playground
Fairfax County will seek $1.9 million in federal funding to renovate Reston's South Lakes Drive Park and improve accessibility.
Initial data from Urban Heat Island Mapping Project points to hottest spots in N. Va.
The hottest parts of Fairfax County identified by this summer’s “Urban Heat Island Mapping Project” likely won’t come as a huge surprise to local residents. Tysons, Reston, Fair Lakes, Chantilly…
Monday, October 26
Reston Association Board Approves 'Good News' Budget Full coverage
The Reston Association Board of Directors found significant savings, minimizing what would have otherwise been a larger increase in fees.
Developer to share latest plan for former T-Mobile campus in Reston tonight
Reston residents will have an opportunity to weigh in tonight (Monday) on a potential redevelopment of the former T-Mobile office park near the Herndon Metro station. Representatives for developer Stanley…
Reston Association approves new budget, capital projects plan Full coverage
The Reston Association Board of Directors has formally adopted a new budget and capital improvement plan (CIP) for the coming year. As proposed earlier this month, the budget will increase…
Friday, October 23
Reston Eatery Makes Northern Virginia’s 50 Best Restaurants: Report
Clarity’s Reston location appears on Northern Virginia Magazine’s 2026 list of the region’s 50 best restaurants.
Fairfax Board Member Donates Car To South Lakes Automotive Program
Fairfax County School Board member Kyle McDaniel donated his car to South Lakes High School’s automotive program in Reston.
Thursday, October 22
Free DJ Dance Party Coming To Reston Town Center This Weekend
Reston Town Center will host its first outdoor DJ Dance Party on Saturday, featuring three DJs, Sip & Stroll drinks and free parking.
Wednesday, October 14
Voter Guide For Reston: What's On The Ballot, Early Voting & More
Early voting options for Reston residents will expand on Oct. 18. Here's who and what's on the Nov. 3 ballot.
Wednesday, August 19
Reston Filmmaker Debuts ‘Prosperity Creek’
Sci-fi social satire, inspired by growing up neurodivergent in this area, and resulting feelings of alienation.
UPDATED: 19-year-old arrested in killing of woman found stabbed in Great Falls
A 19-year-old has been arrested in connection to the killing of a Reston woman found stabbed in the Great Falls area earlier this week, Fairfax County police said.
Tuesday, August 11
Northern Va. congressmen question relocation of federal workers from Reston’s geological campus
A handful of federal workers are reportedly in the process of being moved from their established home in Reston to the U.S. Department of the Interior’s headquarters in D.C.
Tuesday, August 4
Fairfax Planning Commission Backs Reston Town Center North Approval
Sept. 15 Board of Supervisors vote could pave way for new library and shelter.
Friday, July 31
Caddyshackpocalypse Now: With New Golf-Friendly Charm Offensive, War Horse Proves It's a Two-Trick Pony
Hey, remember that time a friendly sounding company bought the Reston National Golf Course and immediately said that there was nothing that could be done but raze it because no one is playing golf any more, and then they became Very…
Monday, July 20
Flashback Monday: Reston Design, By The Book
V. v. exciting news for lovers of antique design trends, like "books." Our favorite correspondent: The Peasant From Less Sought After South Reston, discovered that a 1960s-era book on home decorating included an entire section on…
Wednesday, July 15
Reston's Oldest House Isn't in Great Shape, and Neither Are Its Neighbors (Updated)
Sad news. Reston's oldest house -- and the namesake for the nascent community that predated Bob Simon's exurban pipedream -- was walloped by last week's wild storms. Check out the damage to the Robert Wiehle House, posted to the Reston…
Tuesday, July 14
New President of Herndon Reston Rotary
New President of Herndon Reston Rotary
Thursday, June 25
Say It Ain't So, Joe! Chain Closure Shows Revenge is a Dish Best Served With Unlimited Breadsticks
In the most shocking news since the ought-fourteen bombshell that forced us to retire our most popular meme* about the midscale chainification of Reston, Not Your Average Joe's, the perfectly average chainery that replaced our beloved…
Friday, May 8
Casinopocalypse Never: Developer Denies Interest in Reston, Herndon Casino, Nosiree Bob! (Simon)
No one: Absolutely no one: Comstock: We never wanted to build a casino in your stupid town anyway. The fancypants casino bill has been dead (for now) for almost a month, and developer Comstock just issued a public statement saying nosiree…
Monday, May 4
With Trump Truth Post, Reston Has Finally Arrived
Maybe you thought it was that time Money Magazine ranked Reston the 7th best place to live in the country . Or that time they named a disease and an opera after our plastic fantastic planned community. Or that time we got our fancypants…
Friday, May 1
Swanky $10M Reston Penthouse Sets Record
ZOMG, someone roust Bob Guccione from his penicillin-lined tomb, as a swanky Reston penthouse has set a new record. The 27th floor penthouse at the JW Marriott Residences at Reston Station, presumably bathed in the perpetual sunlight of…
Wednesday, April 1
Call Me Loudounian
The rumors are true. After nearly two decades covering Reston like invasive English ivy, we’ve decided to move on to brighter, beiger pastures. That’s right—we’re swapping the earth tones of our plastic-fantastic planned community for the…
Monday, March 2
You've Got Fail: AOL Lays Off People in Reston; Unclear If They Were Aware AOL Still Existed
Shocking news from the Internets today, where we learned that AOL plans to lay off 108 employees at its Reston office . Even more shockingly, AOL apparently still exists. It's easy to forget how huge a deal AOL once was, and its massive…
Friday, February 27
Always Bet on Mauve: Casinopocalypse Bill Heads to Full Virginia House, Reston 'In Play' (Updated)
Happy Friday News Dump, to all those who celebrate! Our BFFs at the Reston Association opted to send an update on the state of legislative maneuvering around Fairfax County's largely unsolicited, definitely irresponsible plastic fantastic…
Tuesday, February 24
Will the American Dream (Way) Remain Reston's First Gated Community? We Don't Know, But It Gave Us The Chance to Use A Decade-Old Meme
Hey, remember that time when a developer was going to build a mixed-use townhouse community on the site of the former Fannie Mae campus on American Dream (heh) Way, and in the true spirt of that phrase they decided to make it a gated…
Thursday, January 15
VY ask VY? Apartments that Sparked Reston's Consonant-Happy Trend Gets Old-Sounding New Name
VY ask VY? Apparently that's what the new owners of our favorite vowel-free apartment complex in South Reston with a parking garage camouflaged so deftly that it's practically invisible to the naked eye asked themselves, and they decided…
Monday, January 5
The Biennial What’s Out/What’s In List for Reston
Happy 2026! Back by (semi-)popular demand for the first time since 2024, here’s our (semi-)annual list of what’s out and what’s in for our plastic fantastic planned community: OUT IN Jet-age lake cooled AC Brownouts from jet-age wiring…
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
2025: The Reston Year in Review
If you're looking for a metaphor for what 2025 was like in our favorite plastic fantastic planned community, you could do worse than this cellular telephone photo of a garbage truck in front of the office building on American Dream (heh)…
Monday, November 24, 2025
On Soapstone, Crime Pays (in Paint)
While perusing the Face Books, somewhere between a post from someone we sat next to one time in a grade school assembly and a 1,000-word rant about a restaurant visit gone bad, we noticed that an intrepid member of the Reston Herndon…
Thursday, October 9, 2025
We'll Leave the (Burnt Orange) Light on For You
The last year has seen one big change in Reston--not one, but two fancy new hotels have opened their doors with amenities that would have been unthinkable when our plastic fantastic planned community was founded. Rooftop bars with views of…
Monday, September 29, 2025
A Room With An (Expensive) View: Fancypants New Hotel Has 24-Hour Room Service, Creepy Robert E. Simon Mask
While we were focusing on the An Art and palpable lack of woonerf right outside, the fancypants JW Marriott at Reston Station opened its doors to guests last week . We Restonians -- us lumpen proletariats, toiling away at our rapidly…
Thursday, September 25, 2025
Here An Art, There An Art: Everywhere An Art Art: New Arts Confound Restonians, Or Maybe Just Us
Way back in Reston's Golden Age, when the Silver Line was still a dream we could only clap for, we would pore over the design documents and behold the breathtaking vision for Reston's 21st century future. And it was rad! BEHOLD, what might…
Monday, August 4, 2025
Counting What Matters in Reston
Somehow, we missed the annual Reston Butter fl y Count this summer. But thanks to a helpful Reston Association press release, we learned that while volunteers spotted plenty of di ff erent species, overall numbers were down. Sightings…