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Feds loan millions to DC Water for improvements 04/15/2021 04:43pm • DC Water is getting a federal loan that will let the city make millions of dollars in improvements to the water and sewer system in all eight wards of the city. Michael Regan, at his first in-person event as Environmental Protection Agency administrator, on Thursday announced the $156 million loa Fairfax County authorizes $3 million loan for affordable housing near Fort Belvoir 04/13/2021 10:21pm • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a $3 million Housing Blueprint loan to finance the acquisition of new afforda Second home sales are soaring, but now there’s a mortgage hurdle 04/13/2021 10:13am • Second home and vacation home sales have soared in the last year as the pandemic pushed families who can afford them to look for larger homes and alternatives to their primary homes in urban areas, and the ability to take advantage of remote work options. Demand for second homes is up 128% from t Bitcoin soars to new record above $62,700 04/13/2021 06:01am • Bitcoin has rocketed to a new record above $62,700 as investors gear up for this week's eagerly awaited direct listing of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global. Bitcoin has more than doubled in price this year, and it represents just over half of the overall cryptocurr Despite pandemic, business startups are booming in Maryland 04/08/2021 04:09pm • As the COVID-19 crisis ravaged the U.S. economy, countless numbers of businesses shut down and millions of Americans lost jobs. Yet, the pandemic sparked an unexpected trend: The number of business startups is surging across the U.S., and especially here in Maryland. From April to December of DC AG Racine accuses online lender of charging 198% interest rate 04/05/2021 05:06pm • D.C.’s attorney general on Monday announced that he had filed a lawsuit against an online lender, charging it had deceptively marketed loans with interest rates of up to 198%. The Office of Attorney General Karl Racine said that Opportunity Financial had lent money to more than 4,000 District r Va. small business owner thinks others could face what forced her to close 04/01/2021 07:38am • Over the pandemic, WTOP has been keeping up with a Virginia small business owner who now says she'll have to close. The hair salon owner isn't shutting the doors over health concerns, but rather because she learned she'll have to pay back months of reduced rent. "I don't know what to tell you. Fauquier Bank, Virginia National will merge April 1 03/29/2021 08:39am • Fauquier Bank and Virginia National Bank have received shareholder approval for their previously-announced merger and will complete it April 1. (Courtesy Fauquier Bank) Fauquier Bankshares and Virginia National Bankshares Corp., parent companies of Fauquier Bank and Virginia National Bank, have Miss art museums? The Louvre just put its entire art collection online 03/27/2021 08:41pm • There is nothing like spending a rainy afternoon at a museum, soaking in the beauty and wonder of art and history. Now the Louvre, the world's most visited museum, is letting you do that right from home. The French museum has released an online platform featuring all of the museum's artworks, con FTC sending $50M in settlement payments to University of Phoenix students lured by 'deceptive' ads 03/25/2021 02:57pm • The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is sending almost $50 million in settlement payments to University of Phoenix students for advertisements that may have led them to believe the university had relationships with major national companies that would help them land jobs after graduating. According Tweaked flood plan saves 9 buildings in Ellicott City's west end 03/25/2021 02:46pm • Nine buildings in the west end of Ellicott City, Maryland, will not need to be demolished due to a change in Howard County's plans to keep floodwaters off Main Street. On Thursday, County Executive Calvin Ball announced the North Tunnel, which was initially envisioned to run from Parking Lot F do Review: 'The Falcon and the Winter Soldier' miniseries drops on Disney+ 03/19/2021 12:00pm • "WandaVision" proved Marvel could turn two minor characters into compelling TV. Now, it tries again with the six-episode miniseries "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier," which drops its first episode Friday on Disney+ for weekly installments through April 23. Picking up after the events of PHOTOS: Biden visits oldest hardware store in DC 03/09/2021 06:10pm • President Joe Biden stepped into D.C.’s oldest hardware store Tuesday to talk about a change he made to the Paycheck Protection Program to benefit small businesses. The W.S. Jenks & Son hardware store in Northeast D.C. is a recipient of the PPP program. Besides being the oldest hardware store Md. Senate begins discussions on sweeping climate bill 03/06/2021 07:13am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. The Maryland Senate began preliminary discussions Friday on a sweeping climate action plan that calls for net-zero statewide greenhouse ga Timeline: 1 year into the COVID-19 pandemic in DC, Maryland and Virginia 03/05/2021 03:07pm • More than a year ago, reports began circulating about a mysterious new illness in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. It seemed like a world away, and it was — at first. That all changed March 5, 2020, when Maryland authorities announced the first confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the