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AAA travel experts: Vacation situations are fluid so plan early, check back often 05/06/2021 06:20pm • Some people beginning to break out of COVID-19 pandemic bubbles are thinking about taking vacations, and travel experts at AAA warn that situations are fluid, so people should plan early and check back often. "This is not the year of spontaneity. This is the year of planning and being aware and r Metro to expand bus service next month 05/06/2021 05:43pm • Metro announced on Thursday that in June it will expand the hours on 36 Metrobus routes and restore service on some lines to pre-pandemic levels. Starting June 6, Metro said in a statement, the following routes will run until 2 a.m. seven nights a week: D.C. Routes 32, 33, 36, 38B, 52, 70, 8 Hogan announces $25M program aimed at helping Md. youth recover from effects of pandemic 05/06/2021 03:22pm • Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan joined the Maryland Boys and Girls Club on Thursday to announce a program that will attempt to alleviate some of the impact of the pandemic on the state's youth and their families. The program, called Project Bounce Back, is a $25 million public-private partnership (PPP) Washington Football Team to allow fans at FedEx Field next season 05/06/2021 02:49pm • The Washington Football Team on Thursday announced it intends to play its home games this season in front of fans at FedEx Field. Toward that end, the team is waiving all single-game ticket fees for the 24 hours after the NFL schedule is released on Wednesday, May 12, at 8 p.m., the team said in Rockville teen wins a spot for her art in the US Capitol 05/06/2021 02:48pm • Teenagers don't always tell you what they're feeling; often, they show you. And Rep. Jamie Raskin, of Maryland, said the challenges of the past year are evident in the artwork submitted in the 8th Congressional District's art competition. The 125 entries, he said, provide a window into the lives Prince George’s Co. extends hours at 3 vaccine clinics for weekend 05/06/2021 01:42pm • The Prince George’s County, Maryland, Health Department on Thursday announced that opening hours at three COVID-19 vaccine clinics in the county will be extended for the weekend. The Southern Regional Technology and Recreation Center, at 7007 Bock Rd., Fort Washington, and the Laurel-Beltsville Northam plans to lift Va. capacity restrictions June 15 05/06/2021 12:28pm • Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said he is planning to lift all capacity limitations for businesses on June 15 if the current trend of falling COVID-19 case numbers continues. Northam made his announcement at a news briefing Thursday. “If our COVID case numbers keep trending down and our vaccina DC unemployment benefits system to be audited after complaints system failed 05/06/2021 08:24am • The District of Columbia's Inspector General will audit D.C.'s Department of Employment Services, in response to complaints of technical glitches and poor communication, resulting in struggling unemployed workers going weeks or months without income. In a joint oversight roundtable, D.C. Councilm DC ban on dancing at weddings sends couples and venues scrambling 05/05/2021 10:32pm • May is peak wedding season in D.C. but a new coronavirus order released by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser makes it hard for the happy couple to celebrate. As of May 1, dancing is not allowed at any wedding in the District. Under the new order released last week, the city will permit venues to host even Appointments no longer needed at Md.'s mass vaccination sites 05/05/2021 05:14pm • Maryland residents no longer need appointments to get COVID-19 vaccinations at any of the state's 13 mass vaccination sites. Gov. Larry Hogan made the announcement during Wednesday's Board of Public Works meeting. Nine of the sites had already been offering walk-ups. "Walk-ups have been an Montgomery Co. on Memorial Day COVID-19 vaccine goal: 'We'll see where we are' 05/05/2021 04:59pm • Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich is expressing some hesitancy about meeting a goal set by Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan of having enough people in the state vaccinated to "get things back to normal by Memorial Day." Speaking to reporters during a weekly media briefing Wednesday, Elrich said, " Tuition and fees go up for Maryland university system 05/05/2021 03:33pm • The University System of Maryland on Wednesday approved an increase in tuition and fees for the upcoming school year. The Board of Regents voted in favor of an increase that the university said in a statement would average 2% for in-state undergraduates and 5% for out-of-state undergraduates, as Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month 05/05/2021 02:25pm • This content is sponsored by Whiteford, Taylor & Preston LLP. May is Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, and the timing is helpful with Asian-American discrimination continuing to rise.  According to a report by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center reopens 05/05/2021 01:26pm • The first of the Smithsonian's museums in the D.C. area reopened Wednesday. The Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, is back in business. Jeremy Kinney, associate director for research and curatorial affairs, told WTOP's Melissa Howell that the center hasn't been op Children's National opens vaccine waitlist for children 12 and up in anticipation of Pfizer authorization 05/05/2021 01:25pm • Children's National Hospital in D.C. is preparing to vaccinate children 12 and up pending approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. (Courtesy Children's National Hospital) Children's National Hospital in D.C. has established a waitlist for children ages 12 and up as the U.S. waits for the Food an