The average price of a gallon of gasoline in the D.C. area is up 35 cents over the past year, according to data collected by WTOP. more ›

Good morning, Washington and happy Memorial Day weekend. This holiday weekend looks to be full of America - Rolling Thunder motorcycles, barbecues, baseball, beaches, and ...Sarah Palin? And of course, our patently hot D.C. summer days as we unofficially enter the summer season. more ›

AAA Mid-Atlantic says that D.C. reached the $4 average in gas prices either late Thursday night or early Friday morning, with the D.C. becoming the fifth jurisdiction in the country to reach the unwanted distinction. The District joins California, Hawaii, Alaska, and Illinois as the other places in the nation with the ungodly high average. more ›

It's becoming so commonplace for us to receive press releases about how Metro has recorded yet another record ridership day, we're in danger of starting to think these figures aren't that significant -- but that would be a big mistake. Dr. Gridlock noted on Monday that since April alone, nine dates had made their way into Metro's top dozen for ridership, which included last Friday. Now, make that ten.

Hundreds of thousands of people helped Metro set the transit agency’s third highest ridership day in the history of the 32-year-old rail system on Tuesday, June 24. Riders took 831,464 trips, which were 48,534 more trips than the same comparable day last year.