D.C. Fire Department Deputy Chief Kenneth Ellerbe has resigned after it was revealed that he had been allowed to keep his D.C. job even though he had already taken a new position in Florida, Matthew Cella reports in the Washington Times. The unusual arrangement had reportedly come about so that Ellerbe...

Andertho found some snow covered cattails in this weekend’s storm, and made this nicely composed photo . I can’t help hoping he actually stumbled upon the place where corn dogs on sticks grow. View original post here: Photo of the Day: February 1, 2010

Photo by anartist on flickr Good morning, Washington. The rain’s still coming down to greet us all on this inhospitable Monday, so the National Weather Service is warning to watch out for flooding in low lying areas. A flood watch is in place until 1 p.m., thanks to the one to two full inches...

New jobs figures out today from the District’s Department of Employment Services show that D.C. unemployment reached a record high of 12.1 percent in the month of December. That’s an increase of 0.3 percentage points over the previous month, and a full 2.1 percentage points higher than the...

The D.C. Emergency Management Agency reports (via the AlertDC text service) that the city will pre-treat roads in advance of a storm expected early on the morning of New Year’s Eve — a storm that will close out the last day of 2009 with an awful wintery mix. District Department of Transportation...

D.C. Police say they are investigating two fatal shootings that happened overnight in Northeast. The first shooting occurred at about 12:30 a.m. in the 1100 block of 48th Street NE, where officers responding to the sound of gunshots found an unconscious adult male lying in an alley and suffering from...

Photo courtesy Phil Mendelson As the 2010 election season gets underway, DCist will endeavor to interview as many of the candidates for city office as we can. This week, we speak with At-large D.C. Council member Phil Mendelson (D), who is currently running for re-election. For being mild-mannered and...

A Cornell University team member surveys the landscaping in front of Silo House. Photo Credit: Angel Borrego Cubero/U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon By DCist Contributor Lauren Evans Almost overnight, the National Mall has been transformed from an expanse of sickly grass to a prim neighborhood....

Photo by cacophony76 Two staffers for Ward 1 D.C. Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1), David Vacca and Steve Hernandez, have been subpoenaed to appear next week before a federal grand jury in the ongoing taxicab bribery investigation. [ D.C. Wire ] An update on the ongoing Wilson Court Apartments/SOME...

The August unemployment numbers for the District are out, courtesy the Department of Employment Services, and the news is rather dreary. After dropping slightly in July to 10.6 percent (down from 10.9 percent in June), D.C.’s unemployment rate for August was a whopping 11.1 percent, the worst...