Despite the fact that the U.S. Postal Service will likely lose another $5 billion in 2012, any plans to shut down post offices will be met with a fight -- especially by members of Congress. Locally, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is claiming some wins. more ›

This weekend, Metro's cavalcade of major pre-holiday track maintenance rolls on, as five Red Line stations -- Takoma, Silver Spring, Forest Glen, Wheaton and Glenmont -- will be closed to allow for rail renewal work. more ›

Do you live on the Green Line and have a job that requires you to take Metro to get to work on Columbus Day? You may want to think about taking a sick day -- WMATA will close the Shaw, U Street and Columbia Heights stations from 10 p.m. on Friday, October 8 until opening on Tuesday, October 11. more ›

UPDATE: (9:30 a.m.) It appears as if the police presence at the bridge has started to dissipate, and traffic is again being allowed to pass over the bridge. more ›

It wouldn't surprise us one bit if Frank Costanza's stress-relief phrase is muttered more than a few times by Red Line riders this weekend -- WMATA will shut down four Red Line stations this weekend in order to conduct major maintenance. more ›

UPDATE: Everything is all clear now, and 7th Street is back open to traffic and pedestrians. more ›

In case you missed it: Metro will completely close access to the Foggy Bottom Metro station over the upcoming three-day Martin Luther King, Jr. Day holiday weekend, creating a segmented Orange and Blue Line. The closure will go into effect at 10 p.m. on Friday, January 14 and end at 5 p.m. on Monday, January 18. The closure is in effect so that WMATA can undertake significant maintenance work recommended by the National Transportation Safety Board, including the replacement of four track switches, escalator and elevator repairs and the installation of cellular reception infrastructure. It's the first of several similar station closures which WMATA will conduct this year. more ›

Sticky Rice, the popular Asian/sushi restaurant located at 1224 H Street NE, closed early last night after an assault occurred on the premises early Wednesday morning. Police responded to a call for an assault with a deadly weapon around 1:35 a.m. on December 29 -- turns out that the restaurant was the scene of what is being called a "non-fatal stabbing incident." Due to the altercation, the restaurant has been shut down for up to 96 hours by the Metropolitan Police Department. more ›

There aren't a ton of reasons you'd be heading to Judiciary Square on the weekend, but be aware that the entire Metro station will be closed on Saturday, from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., due to security measures for the G20 Summit. The National Building Museum, where the summit of panicked world finance ministers is being held, will also be closed all weekend. And note that if you work late on Friday night, the F Street entrance at Judiciary Square will close at 7 p.m., but you can still access the station that evening by using the 4th and D Street entrance. more ›

WTOP reports that the Baltimore-Washington Parkway reopened shortly after 10:30 a.m. The parkway was closed for five hours in both directions after two people were killed early this morning in a major accident involving two pickup trucks, one car and a motorcycle. Two other people were injured in the crash — one was taken to the hospital in stable condition and another was treated at the scene. more ›

Dogs and cats, living together! more ›

WMATA has officially closed the Dupont Circle Metro station as a result of the power outage. The station was closed at 9:25 a.m. because there wasn't enough electricity to power the station’s lengthy escalators.

While trains can serve the Red Line station, the escalators are extremely long, and customers were experiencing difficulty exiting, so officials closed the station for safety reasons. Trains will pass through Dupont Circle and not stop there. more ›

Things continue to look up for the future of the Fort Reno Summer Concert Series, as well as for general safety concerns in the neighborhood surrounding Fort Reno Park. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released official soil sampling results today which confirmed preliminary results that show arsenic levels in the park are well below what is considered safe. more ›

One person out there was angry enough to pick up the phone—not to call the city or the gallery or the developer, but to alert the Humane Society to the fact that goldfish were trapped inside. The caller pleaded for intervention on behalf of the fish, which were swimming in wall-mounted half-globes backed with photos from various sites around the city. more ›

An automotive showroom for the R.L. Taylor Motor Company, a restaurant supplies retailer under Adams-Burch, and a Pentecostal chapel with the Church of the Rapture—the building that occupies the southwest corner of 14th and T Streets NW has served many people in many ways. Its most recent and perhaps improbable career turn—as a guerrilla art space hidden in the heart of one of D.C.'s fastest-rising commercial corridors—came to a close on Saturday. more ›

WTOP has the scoop on the latest from the Fort Reno Park arsenic saga. Officials have said that early testing from 13 soil samples at Fort Reno Park, Wilson High School and Alice Deal Middle School show a reading of 10 parts per million -- far below the up to 1,100 parts per million a U.S. Geological Survey finding that closed the park last week. Safe levels of arsenic are listed as 43 parts per million by the Environmental Protection Agency. more ›

Potentially terrible news for local music fans: The Going Out Gurus are reporting that Fort Reno Park, the site of D.C.'s beloved outdoor summer concert series, has been closed indefinitely after United States Geological Survey satellite imaging reports found high levels of arsenic in the soil there. We've since heard from readers who said they saw the park service today in the process of putting a fence around the entire park to ensure no one enters it. more ›