The project’s future has been in question after new Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signaled he wasn’t in favor.

The protest group Declare Emergency blocked July Fourth traffic on the Capital Beltway inner loop, demanding action on climate change.

Commuters, take heed.

Montgomery County police are investigating it as a “suspicious death.”

A pair of express toll lanes on Interstate 495 in Northern Virginia opened last week to great fanfare, but no sooner did the new high-occupancy thruways debut than they became the Capital Beltway’s newest bumper-car rink.

Ten years ago today, gunshots blasted through the window of a craft store in Aspen Hill, Md. For the next three weeks, the D.C. area was gripped in fear of being the Beltway snipers’ next target.

A Prince George’s County councilmember who was pulled over last month for driving well over the speed limit on the Capital Beltway has been cited for reckless driving and slapped with a steep fine.

The Daily Beast has compiled a new list of the worst commutes in the country, and the Capital Beltway, especially the Southbound area near Exit 2A-B, has come in at Number 3. Sounds about right. Only the Hollywood Freeway in Los Angeles and the Lunalilo Freeway in Honolulu rank as worse in terms of bottlenecks and hours per week of congestion. The order was based on the peak hour Travel Time Index for the metropolitan…

Former Editor-in-Chief Ryan Avent writes a weekly column about neighborhood and development issues. Not too long ago this site, along with the D.C. Council and much of the rest of the Washington area, was actively debating the incentive package for the new Washington Nationals stadium. At the time I was well aware of the questions about costs and benefits and was familiar with research on the subject suggesting that new stadia did not boost metropolitan…

Happy Friday morning, D.C. If you’re like us, today is payday, and maybe you’re feeling pretty good about the number of digits in your bank account. Perhaps you even plan to go out and make a major purchase this weekend, like say, finally upgrading that crappy stereo system you bought from K-mart before you started college. Maybe you’re even smiling at your desk right this second, thinking of how proud you are to have saved…