For the next year, the D.C. skyline will feature a luminescent protrusion when the sun goes down.

National Park Service officials say the lighting job will give the obelisk a glow-in-the-dark effect.

One DCist reader couldn’t help but notice something new on his commute through the Friendship Heights Metro station this morning — this incredibly bright light fixture.

Yesterday was a bit of a downer for those expecting big things along H Street NE, but today is a brighter day: a majority of heavy construction on the H Street Great Streets project is now finished.

Perhaps Washington D.C. should have had a place on that shame map, after all — considering how much money the federal government wastes on electricity inside the city’s borders.