Arts Groups Oppose Proposed Ticket Tax In D.C.
Arts groups in Washington are fighting a proposed 6 percent tax on tickets in Mayor Vincent Gray's budget for 2012.
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Arts groups in Washington are fighting a proposed 6 percent tax on tickets in Mayor Vincent Gray's budget for 2012.
Police officers who have died in the line of duty have been honored along with their families at an event in Washington.
Laura Bush is joining a major effort to raise hundreds of million dollars from corporations and individual donors to restore the National Mall in Washington.
Frederick residents traveling to Washington will soon be able to take advantage of a new discount bus service.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is endorsing a federal commission's call to build a national museum devoted to American Latino art, history and culture next to the Capitol as part of the Smithsonian Institution.
Garrett County Sheriff Rob Corley says two correctional officers have been fired in connection with an inmate's escape from the county jail in January.
Reigning U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell played the famed Blue Course at Congressional Country Club for the first time Monday. It was just a look-see practice round, so naturally it wasn't televised.
The leaders of Muslim groups in Washington said Monday that the death of Osama bin Laden has brought their community a sense of relief and hope.
When big news breaks, newspapers are still a hot commodity.
Vintage suitcases, an accordion, glass bottles and jars, birdbaths and a 1950s telephone, shelving and tables, a Victorian love seat and hundreds of women jostling through the old barn, looking for treasures and pulling aside girlfriends to muse at their finds.
A major construction project on New York Avenue could affect commuting times into and out of Washington for the next two years.
The commander of the Military District of Washington is affirming the six-month prison sentence of an Army doctor who disobeyed deployment orders because he doubted President Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as commander-in-chief.
Dozens of people are using the anniversary of the day President Abraham Lincoln freed slaves in Washington to call for more independence for the city, and three have been arrested.
A new survey says there are nearly 12,000 homeless people in the Washington area, a 2 percent increase from the previous year.
When space shuttle Discovery makes its way to the Smithsonian, it will join capsules from Mercury, Gemini and Apollo that have all flown in space.
The Washington area's Metro transit system will receive $150 million in federal funds for safety upgrades under the budget deal agreed to by Congressional leaders last week.
Trash would go uncollected, parking tickets wouldn't be issued and about 14,000 District of Columbia employees would be furloughed in the event of a federal government shutdown, D.C. officials said Wednesday.
The Capitals now have a large Baltimore fan base.
Metro is preparing for crowded conditions this weekend during the National Cherry Blossom Festival.
Road crews are preparing for a rare spring snow with forecasts calling for accumulations in Washington, central Maryland and east to the Delaware shore.
The National Cherry Blossom Festival is opening with a day of children's activities and art demonstrations at the National Building Museum in Washington.
The flowering trees that symbolize friendship between the United States and Japan are blooming for the 99th time in Washington in the wake of one of the world's worst natural disasters.
Two more people involved in the taxicab industry in Washington have pleaded guilty to bribery charges.
Even one week after the quake and tsunami hit, people still feel a need to express their feelings, including at the Japanese Embassy in Washington, D.C.
Prince William County fire officials say heavy rains are flooding some roads in the county.
