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Arlington, Alexandria home prices hit all-time highs 09/01/2020 08:45am • A for sale sign is seen next to a house in Arlington, Virginia on May 6, 2020. Homes have been selling quickly during the pandemic. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images) More homes are for sale in inventory-depleted Arlington County and Alexandria, but they are selling as fas Ex-Hogan aide fired for backing teen Kenosha shooter threatens legal action 09/01/2020 07:27am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. A former member of the Hogan administration who was fired over the weekend for posting statements and memes on social media that sympathized Is downtown DC a ghost town? Not quite, but close 09/01/2020 04:00am • FILE — Office buildings with uniform heights are seen on 13th street Northwest in downtown Washington, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) A Downtown DC Economy Update released by the Downtown Business Improvement District highlights the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect. I DMV entertainment venues to light up Tuesday night for pandemic Red Alert 09/01/2020 12:25am • If you see red lights outside D.C. concert venues Tuesday night, don't be alarmed. On second thought, be alarmed! Our entertainment venues are barely hanging on. The North American coalition We Make Events is hosting Red Alert RESTART, inspired by a UK event that lit up 715 buildings and a Danger of letting kids spend too much time online 08/31/2020 08:47pm • When the virtual school day is over, some kids might stay on digital devices for fun. But a Virginia child psychiatrist warns it's not good to let them surf the web or play video games for hours on end. "What's happening is that after time, they're not getting as much pleasure, and they have to s Virtual start to DC-area schools comes with some problems 08/31/2020 05:00pm • The hallways are empty as the new school year begins at Cooper Lane Elementary School in Landover Hills, Maryland. (WTOP/Neal Augenstein) Hundreds of thousands of students in some of the D.C. region's largest school systems went back to class virtually Monday, but technology problems plagued som Zooming into kindergarten: What it's like on first day of elementary school 08/31/2020 01:30pm • Mia Linton starts her first day of kindergarten online. (WTOP/John Domen) Early Monday morning, 5-year-old Mia Linton held up a handmade sign and posed for pictures in the front yard, marking the first day of school. Then, the new kindergarten student turned around and walked back inside to begi As distance learning starts, Maryland teacher returns to empty classroom 08/31/2020 01:30pm • Every year, third-grade teacher Mary Piccirilli looks forward to the first day of school. It's a chance to get her students off to a great start, and it generally kicks off with hugs and high-fives at the door of her classroom at Cooper Lane Elementary. "But this year, it's a little bit different Md. utility regulator extends moratorium on service cutoff for one more month 08/31/2020 11:46am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. After 12 hours of testimony from a broad array of stakeholders late last week, the Maryland Public Service Commission voted Monday to extend Total number of virus cases at Virginia Tech rises to 178 08/31/2020 10:43am • BLACKSBURG, Va. — The total number of coronavirus cases among students and employees at Virginia Tech has risen to 178. The Roanoke Times reported Monday that there was an increase of 157 positive tests for the week ending Sunday. The university’s positivity rate is 1.8% out of 10,053 tests. No, your kitchen table is not a home office tax deduction 08/31/2020 09:28am • With millions of Americans working from home for the last several months, and maybe the foreseeable future, some may be tempted to take a home office tax deduction for the 2020 tax year. But the vast majority of employees sent home to work remotely won’t qualify for the deduction. “The hom Democratic candidates for Baltimore mayor spent $8 million 08/31/2020 08:43am • BALTIMORE — The top six Democratic candidates running for Baltimore mayor spent about $8 million during the primary season. The Baltimore Sun reported Monday that candidates faced an elongated race because the coronavirus pandemic had pushed primary day from April 28 to June 2. And yet the t 'Not a good sign': DC hotels face a double whammy of bad news 08/31/2020 08:32am • The Hay-Adams Hotel, in Washington, D.C., in a 2013 photo. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Some of the largest hotels in D.C. that closed at the beginning of the pandemic are reopening their doors: The Conrad Hotel, Hay-Adams and Mandarin Oriental all reopened in late August. But the future 'It’ll definitely be weird': High school seniors won’t start the year how they expected 08/31/2020 08:09am • There’s a certain swagger that comes with the first day of senior year at high school — but the coronavirus pandemic means those starting classes Monday are in for an experience unlike any had by generations of students before them. “In the past I’ve always seen the people in grades above Loudoun Co. use of libraries for county day care prompts closures, anger 08/31/2020 06:09am • The decision by Loudoun County's Board of Supervisors to utilize two of the Virginia county's libraries as day care facilities for county employees during the COVID-19 pandemic has drawn the ire of library officials. Starting Monday, Aug. 31, the Ashburn and Rust branches — two of the county's