Unions: D.C.’s Broken...

This week, the District has been besieged by relentless heat. It’s uncomfortable, perhaps even more so, for those on the verge of death. When that’s the case, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, firefighters, and registered nurses think D.C. ambulances shouldn’t be a...

City Officials Find Sol...

Updated at 5:25 p.m. Throughout this hypothermia season, the District has managed to keep D.C. General’s emergency family shelter from becoming overcrowded . The good news is there aren’t families sleeping in hallways next to trash cans or enduring sleepless nights in the...

Last Train Home?...

When it comes to late-night weekend ridership, Metro’s most popular stops are not surprising: Dupont Circle, U Street, and Gallery Place. (If that raw data’s hard to grasp, Greater Greater Washington made this very handy graph .) While that’s probably not all late-night...

EPA to D.C.: Clean Up!...

Toxic sites along the Anacostia River. The District’s waterfront was busy this week. On Tuesday, a slew of politicians attended the ribbon cutting for Yards Park , a $42 million undertaking that boasts sprawling views of the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers. Less than a mile northeast,...

AOL Enters Crowded Geor...

Attention, Georgetowners! There’s about to be an old-fashioned newspaper war in your old-fashioned neighborhood. OK, maybe not a newspaper war. But the market for online scoops about Jack Evans ‘ electoral ambitions, Thomas Sweet’s ice-cream menu, and NIMBYish...

A Redskins Town?...

The Washington City Paper / Kojo Nnamdi Show public opinion poll—out tomorrow in our dead-tree edition, and soon to be presented in geekily searchable detail on this site—may or may not be right in predicting that Vincent Gray will win next week’s Democratic mayoral primary....

The Needle: A River Run...

Clean Me a River : Long-time Washingtonians may sometimes wonder what’s going through the heads (or digestive tracts) of people fishing on the banks of the Potomac River. For decades, the river’s been considered so polluted as to be a national disgrace. Turns out those people...

The Needle: Like a Hurr...

Getting Blown Away : This year has already brought the D.C. region blizzards, near-record heat waves, and an earthquake. So it probably shouldn’t come as any surprise that Virginia officials are now warning that Hurricane Earl could wind up rolling through the area. For now,...

The Needle: Pepco Under...

Manly Deeds, Womanly Words, Pepco Oversight : The Maryland Public Service Commission announced it wants Pepco to appear at a hearing Tuesday morning to explain why the utility can’t quite manage to actually provide electrical service to its customers. 60,000 people lost power in...

The Needle: Prepare An ...

The Gods Are Angry With Us : Torrential downpours and furious lightning aren’t really so out of the ordinary for the D.C. region in August, but the two rounds of storms today seem to have knocked the city back to the Stone Age. The rain led to Metro station closures , a sinkhole...