The lack of snow this winter may be depressing for those of us who like winter sports or snow days, but local governments certainly aren't shedding a tear. more ›

Prince George's County is considering imposing its own five-cent fee on plastic bags. more ›

No real surprise here -- according to a report from a terrorism research institute at the University of Maryland, the District came in fifth on a list of terrorism "hot spots" across the country, having been targeted 79 times from 1970 to 2008. more ›

Last week The Daily Beast didn't include the District in its list of the country's top 20 most tolerant cities, and now Travel and Leisure has us ranked as the third rudest city in the U.S.: more ›

One Virginia legislator wants to know just how much the commonwealth could take in if it sold marijuana at liquor stores. Our guess? A lot. more ›

Two Virginia Democrats are again trying to get themselves a fee on plastic bags, but five cents isn't enough for them -- they're trying for 20. more ›

If the District wants to build the Washington Redskins a training facility as Mayor Vince Gray has hinted, Loudoun County won't let the team's current facility go without a fight. more ›

While the great majority of the District's money is kept outside of local banks, that could eventually change. more ›

It doesn't look like a new crackdown on D.C. food trucks is coming tomorrow. more ›

Marylanders may be hoping to get same-sex marriage this year, but one member of the D.C. Council wants to make it easier for same-sex marriages performed here to be ended. more ›

The Post writes today that a Pew Research Center reports has found that marriage rates across the U.S. are hovering at the 50 percent mark, a drop from the 57 percent that took the plunge in 2000. more ›

You could probably be forgiven for having missed what Post columnist Mike Wise is calling the local sports story of the year -- it's been 18 years since the last boxing championship took place in D.C., after all. more ›

According to a report by the Trust for Public Land, New York City leads the country in terms of parkland as a percentage of city area, coming in at 38,000 acres, or 19.5 percent of the city's land. The District, though, is a close second, with 7,400 acres, or 19 percent of our land. Arlington squeezed into the top 10 with 1,800 acres, or 11.4 percent. more ›

You can't get into a conversation about the District without inevitably talking about how divided it is. That's because it's true. more ›

Google sure has made some controversial choices over the last few weeks, but here's one we can fully get behind. more ›

Most everyone knows that the District's government is big -- some 33,000 people work for it. But today, The Washington Times breaks down why it's so costly and how that's slowly changing. more ›

The D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles reported today that an amnesty on overdue parking tickets is working, having drawn in a total of $1,902,665 in revenue from 35,357 outstanding tickets. more ›

The future of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library is one of those contentious issues that surprisingly gets people riled up. And so it will again in November, when a group of urban planners and library scientists gather to decide what to do with the aging building that houses the District's flagship public library. more ›

If Mayor Vince Gray's announcement that D.C. police would no longer be checking the immigration status of people stopped for minor offenses put the city at one end of the immigration spectrum, then Virginia's Prince William County is certainly at the other -- something Corey Stewart, the Chairman At-Large of the county's Board of Supervisors, wants everyone to know. more ›

Though it is excellent, Dream City isn't the only book about the District of Columbia you should read. Here's a few others we'd suggest. more ›

A new sign on the Key Bridge welcoming drivers to the District was vandalized over the weekend, treating commuters to an anti-war message this morning. more ›

For years the crossing the Key Bridge northbound had been a relatively understated affair -- at no point were you welcomed to the District, as you would be coming into the city from a number of other directions. (Or as you're welcomed to Virginia crossing southbound.) more ›

It's easy to complain about the District's government, and we've certainly all had a run-in with a bureaucrat that clearly seemed to hate their job something fierce. But there's always that one city employee that is courteous, helpful and even goes out of their way to help. more ›

Nightlife impresario Joe Englert may already own a good chunk of the bars on H Street NE, but he's still working to brand an area that has about as many identities as it does places to get a beer. more ›

Contenders in the Republican presidential contest have been going after presumed front-runner Rick Perry for a number of reasons, but they've focused in on one issue that truly seems to resonate with conservatives -- the HPV vaccine. more ›

Pepco power outages are emerging across the D.C. region, with at least a few hundred people already affected in D.C., Montgomery County and Prince George's County. more ›

Yesterday afternoon and night saw no less than four violent incidents in the D.C. area. Two separate incidents involved youth in the Gallery Place area last night. One youth was stabbed, another injured with a cut hand in separate incidents on 7th Street NW. Missiles were also thrown at a bus in the same area. The incidents broke out around 11 p.m. last night. more ›