Service charges are everywhere, so the D.C. Attorney General is offering guidance to restaurants on how to ensure they jive with the law.

Food delivery apps like Uber Eats and Grubhub charge high commissions on restaurants that are invisible to consumers, say officials in Montgomery County.

A Fairfax County circuit judge ruled that the upcharge doesn’t represent an unconstitutional burden.

Drivers will pay as much as $90 more every year through a new “driver protection fee.”

Alexandria bicycle owners could soon have to pay up for the privilege of riding around on their own two wheels.

In an email to subscribers today, pay-by-phone parking app Parkmobile admitted that maybe it was a little simplistic to pin an increase in transaction fees on financial reform legislation passed by Congress.

Pay-by-phone parking app Parkmobile informed its D.C. users today that transaction fees would increase from 32 to 45 cents because of…financial reform legislation?

Not many out-of-towners send their kids to D.C. public schools, but many of those that do don’t pay what they owe. It’s especially expensive for D.C. when it comes to special education.

D.C. charges residents and business for lots of things, from basic services to licenses and permits. The D.C. Council recently published the city’s master fee schedule, and we picked out some of our favorite fees.

When the D.C. Library announced a two-month-long amnesty on fines for overdue books, the idea was to encourage patrons to return materials that they had long-ago checked out but never returned. The program, which ended earlier this month, was a more rousing success than anyone could have predicted.