Drivers hate parking tickets, but they're all bound to get a few of them every year in D.C. But how much would it cost to, you know, pay your way out of just about every parking ticket for a year? more ›

Do you have a parking spot available? Or do you need a place to park? Parking Panda might be the very smartphone app you need. more ›

Fans of the Basil Thyme food truck got quite the shock earlier this afternoon when the mobile eatery was towed from its perch outside Metro Center. more ›

If you're circling the block downtown and happen upon one of the scarce open on-street parking spots, be sure to check the color of the parking meter. If it's red and you're not handicapped, it's not the place for you to park. more ›

Logan Circle residents embraced, with a few questions, a pilot program being proposed by the office of Councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) that would apply more restrictive parking rules to the neighborhood. more ›

Officials in Logan Circle are hoping to do their motorists a solid. At least that seems to be the aim of a proposed pilot program for residential parking permits in traffic-heavy Logan Circle. more ›

Attention car-owners without private driveways or garage spots: Street-cleaning season starts anew on Thursday, with enforcement to begin on March 12. more ›

The Golden Triangle Business Improvement District is soliciting entries for its annual bike rack design competition. Winner gets a cash stipend; more importantly, the we get a snazzy new place to park our bikes. more ›

There's a very slim chance you'll get a ticket if you use pay-by-phone app Parkmobile, insist company officials. 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 ›

Via Greater Greater Washington, Twitter user @nikki_d caught Councilmember Vincent Orange (D-At Large) parking his white Cadillac SUV in the 15th Street NW bike lane on New Year's Day. more ›

Back on November 4, we noted an incredibly unusual occurrence in which an entire string of parked cars along the 1000 block of Euclid Street were totally smashed to bits, leaving police baffled as to what exactly happened. We finally got a chance to take a look at the preliminary police report of the incident, and boy, is it a whopper. more ›

Hey, a whole bunch of the city has the day off tomorrow! (Our regards to those who don't.) more ›

As more and more people in the District ride their bikes to work, there has been a small but growing move towards creating and installing creative and neighborhood-defining bike racks. more ›

If you live in a part of the District where street-sweepers force you to engage in a weekly ballet of car-moving before you head off to work, you'll be able to rest easy as of next week -- the city's street-sweeping program goes into hibernation on October 31. more ›

It may be a day to celebrate food, but that doesn't mean that local parking enforcement is taking things easy. more ›

Join the parking revolution, people -- everyone is paying by phone these days. 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 ›

Am I allowed to hand those parking meter receipts to someone else if there's still time left on it? Indeed you can. We explain. more ›

While a LivingSocial deal might hit Zipcar's bottom line (which has never been great), making money isn't really the point. 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 ›

To add to the weekend's transit woes, the IMF/World Bank's annual spring meetings begin today. And you know what that means -- street closures and parking restrictions! more ›

In case it's slipped your mind, tomorrow marks the observation of Emancipation Day in the District -- which means that most of the city's workers will be taking the day off. 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 ›