Climate change is making flooding worse in D.C., but the city’s unique history as the nation’s capital has built in some protection.

Relatives of Rhonda Whitaker and Waldon Adams say they still have little information about what happened to the pair, which was killed by a driver as they walked around Hains Point last year.

The changes would start just after the golf course entrance, then go down to Hains Point and back up to Buckeye Drive.

Waldon Adams, 60, and Rhonda Whitaker, 55, both experienced homelessness — and later turned to helping others find their way back to housing.

The Department of General Services says the project had become “both safety and cost prohibitive.”

The cyclist was airlifted to a nearby hospital with serious injuries.

Hains Point is something of a peaceful getaway for the area’s cyclists and runners — generally free from vehicular traffic, the 3-mile loop also known as East Potomac Park is flat and affords views of the Washington Channel and the Potomac River. And while the park is nowhere near any of the city’s office buildings or monuments, one cyclist recently learned not to assume that the U.S. Park Police that patrols it isn’t sensitive to…

If the powers that be think we’re going to go easily or quietly, they’re wrong. The Post today exposed a devious little plan to chip away at the District’s identity, starting with phasing out the city’s postmark and replacing it instead with one bearing the name of our northern neighbor, Maryland. According to a Post study, of 235 letters mailed from every quadrant and zip code within city limits, only 24 — 10 percent –…

Good morning, Washington. We hope you had as pleasant a weekend as we had, running around in that gorgeous warm sunlight and forgetting you ever complained about the weather in this city in the first place. Not even the threat of rain later this week, nor the mess of traffic on Saturday night that resulted from what was reportedly the least fun White House Correspondents’ Dinner ever, could ruin our overall improved moods. Seasonal affective…

There are so many photos taken of The Awakening, sometimes we forget Hains Point is one of the nice, sort of nature filled areas in D.C., at the convergence of two rivers, with a park, and walking distance to many of the monuments. Flickr user saskiamarisha looks at it from a nice perspective here, making it the perfect image to stick on your desktop for daydreams of the coming spring. The photo was taken…