Do you feel like drivers in D.C. can't parallel park? There might be a reason for that. more ›

A day short of the end of an amnesty program under which drivers with two-year-old tickets can pay up without the usual penalties, Virginia and Maryland drivers remain in arrears to the District for hundreds of millions of dollars. more ›

The District's new Parkmobile app, which allows you to use your smart phone to pay for parking, is awesome. Except for when it doesn't stop you from getting a parking ticket. more ›

Before the D.C. Council gets things together and creates a souped-up debt collection agency, it may behoove those of you that have unpaid and overdue parking tickets or other driving-related fines to pay them before the end of January. more ›

Do you really love the regional professional lacrosse team? Do you want everyone to know? Now you can! more ›

After D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown's temporary tags on his brand-new Prius were washed away by rain last week, he remedied the situation by getting himself some D.C. license plates. But not just any license plates! more ›

A year ago, the District started an ambitious and innovative program to better test residents for HIV/AIDS -- it started offering screening inside the Penn Branch DMV facility at 3220 Pennsylvania Avenue SE. 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 ›

In an Examiner column yesterday, writer Harry Jaffe made quite the claim about Mayor Vince Gray's intentions for "One City". more ›

The District has gotten plenty of grief in the last week over news that police officers have been throwing handcuffs on drivers that forgot to renew their registrations. Tomorrow that should change. more ›

After a rash of incidents in which drivers were arrested by D.C. police for having lapsed registrations, pretty much everyone seems to think that a solution is necessary. The problem is that no one seems to be clear on where that solution will be coming from. more ›

In yesterday's Morning Roundup, DCist noted that Washington Times Senior Editor Emily Miller was reporting on the process of getting a gun in D.C. by going through it herself. Later that afternoon, TBD's Ryan Kearney parodied Miller's first-hand account, prefacing his spoof by calling Miller's attempt to buy a gun "willfully ignorant." more ›

Can the D.C. police actually throw you in the clink for having an expired registration? more ›

Next time you contest a parking ticket, you might want to think twice about pretending that the violation you're accused of didn't happen -- the District might have photographic evidence that it did. more ›

In other, somewhat less obvious budget gap-related news: the District Department of Motor Vehicles will be raising rates on some transactions, including fees for residential parking permits and change of address requests. more ›

The D.C. DMV announced today that in the first month of its ticket amnesty program, deadbeat drivers paid 17,950 outstanding tickets worth $976,341 in revenue for the city. more ›

Originally, the District's Department of Motor Vehicles -- currently offering amnesty from late fees to those with long-outstanding tickets -- was going to stop honoring requests from residents curious about whether they had tickets that would qualify for amnesty today. But the agency has announced that, given the success of the program so far, they'll extend the free research service through September 9. more ›

If you're the holder of one (or several) of the thousands of unpaid parking tickets issued by the District of Columbia before January 1, 2010, you can pay it (or them) without any late fees starting today. more ›

Drivers owe the District of Columbia over $245 million in unpaid parking tickets. The city would really like to get some of that money back, naturally. So beginning August 1, the city's Department of Motor Vehicles will be suspending penalties on outstanding tickets to encourage people to pay up. more ›

Even if waiting to get your driver's license renewed in the middle of an intense heat wave without the help of recirculated air doesn't sound like, you know, the worst thing in the history of the world, the District's Department of Motor Vehicles is recommending you steer clear of its Georgetown branch today. more ›

People who have to spend some time at one of the District's Department of Motor Vehicle centers can save time by checking the agency's website, which provides live webcam images of how busy each location is. But what happens when the DMV gets raptured? more ›

You might be able to take Metro during a government shutdown, but a bevy of other city services that Washington residents usually take for granted would grind to a halt. more ›

It's one of my favorite pieces of toothless regulation in this city, one which I often break out at that point during parties when people have already had a couple of beers and far more interesting and topical conversational topics have already been extinguished: D.C. law requires most people "domiciled in the city for 30 days or more" who operate a vehicle "in public space" to obtain a driver's license. It's just another one of those legislations, like the snow shoveling fine, which is all gums. Of course, it's significantly less humorous for people living in the city who don't have a Social Security number -- because without one, it's impossible to follow that law. more ›

The topic of Virginia's license plates is hardly new to us -- whether they're expressing opinions on sexual preferences, voting rights or a radical political philosophy, we're always marveling at the Commonwealth's bevy of personalization options, which often foster an impressive, if character-limited, verbosity. But based on one man's story, Virginia is only cool with collecting revenue via thousands of personalized plates if they can also be the arbiter of what is and isn't offensive. more ›

This afternoon, Mayor-elect Vince Gray announced he will retain Office of Planning chief Harriet Tregoning, along with several other Adrian Fenty appointees. more ›

Today, the District adds one more license plate to its short list of vehicle tags promoting certain organizations or causes. (My personal favorite? The National Association of Black Scuba Divers.) more ›

If you own a vehicle in D.C. and recently got a letter from the Department of Motor Vehicles dated October 11 stating that your registration has been suspended because your insurance has lapsed, even though it hasn't: don't worry. According to the DMV, an issue which affected "a small percentage of customers" caused the Department to issue the letters, which stated that recipient had to pay $248 to fix the registration issue -- and threatened a $300 fine and jail time if the recipient drove without remedying the situation. In an alert, the DMV suggested that vehicle owners make sure that their vehicle is registered using its online verification tool. The DMV will be sending correction letters to all those who erroneously received the notification. more ›

The long-running computer glitch which has ground operations at the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles to a halt will get fixed -- but not until Wednesday at the earliest, so Virginians will need to wait yet another day to get a new license or identification card. Police in the Commonwealth have apparently been instructed to not punish drivers who have had their licenses expire in the last few days. (Normally, the punishment for driving without a license, a misdemeanor, is revocation of driving privileges for up to ninety days.) Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell has called for an independent investigation into the computer issues, which not only affected the DMV, but several other state agencies. The review will reportedly determine whether the contractor who provided the computer system to the state, Northrup Grumman, should return money to the government to make up for the lost productivity. more ›

Adam Rosenberg recently visited the District's Department of Motor Vehicles website to change his address -- he had recently moved and needed to update his vehicle registration. He was impressed with the upgrades that the DMV had made to its website over the last year -- even though the verification of his new address which the DMV approved, a Word document that anyone could have slapped together, was hardly foolproof. But Rosenberg wasn't out to dupe anyone, so he let it slide and chalked it up to the cost of doing things online as opposed to waiting in the often interminable lines at a service center. more ›