Running the city's most famous annual marathon may take months of training and a steady pace, but registering for it can be an all-out sprint. So be ready—registration for the Marine Corps Marathon opens today at 3 p.m. more ›

A bill that would make it easier for residents to register handguns moved through a D.C. Council committee today, and if it passes the full council hopeful gun owners will no longer have to complete a five-hour training class, submit to a vision test or give up their gun for a ballistics test. The law would also allow the District's mayor to act as a federally licensed firearms dealer if the sole dealer in the District goes out of business, as happened briefly last year. more ›

The nation's voter rolls are a total mess. That's why you should check to see if your D.C. voter registration is right and valid. more ›

The D.C. Council stepped up this morning and did away with the controversial D.C. police practice of arresting drivers whose registration has lapsed. 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 ›

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

During a press conference this morning, Mayor Vince Gray revealed that the District's gun drought will soon be broken: Charles Sykes, the only person registered to sell and transfer guns inside the District, will soon open up shop inside the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Department. more ›

Ever since the District's sole licensed gun dealer went out of business earlier this year, residents have been unable to purchase handguns. Two different proposals offered today seek to remedy that. more ›

This morning, At-Large D.C. Councilmember Phil Mendelson introduced a bill which would slightly alter the waiting period for residents wishing to register a handgun inside the District. Under current regulations, Washingtonians seeking to register a handgun must wait 10 days after applying for registration; Mendelson's bill, in effect for the next 90 days, changes that requirement to a 10-day waiting period after the point of purchase. Mendelson introduced the bill after the city's lone operating federal registrar, Charles Sykes, lost his lease, rendering him currently unable to process new registrations. more ›

Looking to register a handgun in the District of Columbia? You're currently out of luck: Mark Segraves reports that there's a "temporary, de facto ban" on registration because the city's lone gun registrar has stopped taking orders after he lost his lease. more ›

If you're registered to vote in the District, but you've moved or changed political affiliations since the last time you went to the polls and are planning on voting in the April 26 special election, you'll want to check out the Board of Election and Ethics website today -- it's the last day for D.C. voters to update their records via mail before the citywide election. more ›

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Via the Post's Get There blog, the D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles has put in place a number of new regulations starting today. The fees to renew a D.C. driver's license or identification card has gone up from $39 to $44. That's not too big of a hike, and the good news is that those licenses will now be valid for eight years, instead of only five. That works out to $5.50 per year versus $7.80 per year before, so in a real way, it actually costs less now. more ›