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Hogan makes education, pandemic relief a priority in next Md. budget 01/19/2021 08:16pm • Gov. Larry Hogan has unveiled Maryland's new proposed budget, and both pandemic relief and education are the next fiscal year's top priorities. At a news conference Tuesday, Hogan said "The Relief Act of 2021" will provide over $1 billion in immediate, targeted emergency tax cuts and financial re Alexandria's Atlantis family restaurant is closing 01/18/2021 02:40pm • Atlantis — located in the Bradlee Shopping Center on King Street, in Alexandria’s west end — has been in business for 38 years. (Credit: Google Street View) Atlantis Pizzeria and Family Restaurant is the latest D.C.-area business to be severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. It will cl Review: 'MLK/FBI' is a provocative, disturbing chronicle of King vs. Hoover 01/18/2021 02:19am • If you missed it at the Middleburg Film Festival or the Double Exposure: Investigative Film Festival back in October, you can finally watch "MLK/FBI" from the comfort of your home. The provocative documentary is now streaming just in time for the MLK holiday. The film chronicles civil righ Who are Nats getting in Kyle Schwarber? 'You’re not going to find a better person' 01/14/2021 06:00pm • Who is Kyle Schwarber? 'You’re not going to find a better person' originally appeared on NBC Sports WashingtonAs Kyle Schwarber joins the Nationals for the 2021 MLB season, he's a name that Nationals fans may have heard plenty, but not really know a ton about.He'll always be a p Promises to work together — but also glaring differences — as unprecedented Md. session begins 01/13/2021 06:09pm • Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City), in his protected space, presides during the first day of the 2021 General Assembly session. Photo by Danielle E. Gaines. This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Mattersâ Foster's Grille launches chicken ghost kitchen at its Vienna location 01/13/2021 12:27pm • Foster's Grille will open a ghost kitchen at its Vienna, Virginia, location. (Credit: Google Street View) Foster’s Grille, the 21-year-old homegrown chain known for its juicy, half-pound charburgers, has launched a delivery-only ghost kitchen chicken restaurant at its Vienna, Virginia, locatio Lawmakers unveil an ambitious climate action plan for Maryland 01/13/2021 04:52am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Maryland would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60% and plant 5 million trees by 2030, under a revamped, ambitious climate change bill t Montgomery Co. schools delay start of in-person learning 01/12/2021 05:28pm • Some students in Montgomery County, Maryland, will have to wait longer to return to the classroom, with the school board pushing the start date for in-person learning to March. Some students were slated to go back to the classroom on Feb. 1, but on Tuesday the school board voted to delay the star 12 tax deductions that have disappeared 01/12/2021 05:00am • The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 made major changes to the tax code and were a mixed bag for some households. While the standard deduction nearly doubled and the child tax credit increased, many other deductions and credits were eliminated. Not much will be changing for the 2020 tax year though. Hogan unveils $1B COVID-19 stimulus measure in Maryland 01/11/2021 12:17pm • Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan unveiled a $1 billion stimulus and tax relief package aimed at easing the economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic, which includes direct payments to "Marylanders in need." The RELIEF Act — which stands for Recovery for the Economy, Livelihoods, Industries, Entreprene Where DC ranks for millennial homebuyers 01/11/2021 08:52am • The average purchase price for a millennial buyer in the D.C. area last year was $385,000. (Getty Images/iStockphoto/Feverpitched) Millennials account for the largest share of homebuyers, more than older — and wealthier — generations, according to a study of mortgage applications by personal WTOP Top Kid: DC teen 'Woks for Washington' 01/11/2021 04:40am • Cathleen Shi and her sister Grace deliver food to local hospitals. (Courtesy Cathleen Shi) Many D.C.-area businesses have been hit hard by the pandemic, but one Washington teen has found a way to support health care workers and local restaurants. Cathleen Shi, 13, and her sister Grace, both C Howard County approves $137M arts center in Columbia 01/06/2021 01:12pm • The Howard County Council this week approved $137 million in funding for a new arts center to be built in Columbia, Maryland, by the end of 2024. The facility includes a new Toby's Dinner Theatre, black-box children's theater, rooftop performance space and classrooms for the Columbia Center f Proud Boys leader no longer in custody but ordered to leave DC and stay away 01/05/2021 02:35pm • Proud Boys leader Henry "Enrique" Tarrio takes part in a Portland, Oregon, rally in this September 2020 file photo. D.C. police accuse him of burning a Black Lives Matter banner that had been torn down from a historic Black church in D.C. last month. (AP Photo/Allison Dinner, File) The leader of Siné Irish Pub permanently closes on Pentagon Row 01/05/2021 01:32pm • Siné opened its Pentagon Row location in 2002. It has a second location that remains open in Richmond, Virginia. (Photo credit: Google Street View) Popular Pentagon Row bar and restaurant Siné Irish Pub has permanently closed. Its last night was Saturday. "It is with sadness that we have t