The local blog is joining forces with Local News Now, the online publisher of ARLnow and RestonNow.

“Basically, what it came down to is that we just didn’t find the support of local advertisers,” says the site’s co-editor.

We spoke with Borderstan’s new editor, Tim Regan, about the site’s relaunch.

Borderstan readers say Logan Circle is still the top gay neighborhood in D.C.

If you’re concerned about average D.C. street crime (and who isn’t), you really need to be reading Borderstan on a regular basis. The blog has been doing a consistently great job of warning residents about the everyday muggings and burglaries that mostly go unreported by larger media outlets, and this week has been no exception. Note this report of a 9 a.m. mugging bank robbery on K Street: D.C. police were searching for a suit-wearing,…

The Borderstan blog alerts us to what appears to be a string of armed robberies in the past week in their Logan/Dupont/Shaw overlap area. Three different gun-involved muggings have happened along R Street NW between New Hampshire and 13th, and another happened the other night at 11th Street NW and Vermont Ave. We also heard about at least one other armed robbery Thursday night, right around 14th and T Streets NW. Stay alert in the…

WJLA has a story about a recent uptick in the number of residential burglaries in the Dupont neighborhood — there have been at least eight burglaries in the area in the last week, and police are warning residents about thieves entering their homes through skylights and upper-floor windows via rooftops. That’s definitely news, but we couldn’t help but notice that this story marks the first time we’ve seen a local news outlet officially call the…

WJLA reports an increase in armed robberies in the neighborhood east of Dupont Circle, an area that some residents have been drawing attention to over the last six months by campaigning to get people to start calling it Borderstan. The folks behind the Borderstan movement roughly define the area as lying between 14th and 16th Streets NW and P and S Streets NW, which happens to be split down the middle between ANCs 2F and…