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Why are your grocery bills continuing to rise? 09/16/2021 02:54pm • If you’ve wondered why food prices go up every time you go to the grocery store, you’re not alone. Between labor shortages, supply issues and weather- and pandemic-related slowdowns, it’s getting harder for many Americans to keep food on the table. To talk about ongoing challenges in the U. Prince George’s Co., other school systems facing bus driver shortage 09/15/2021 05:59pm • Like many others in the D.C. region, the public school system in Prince George’s County, Maryland, say they are facing a bus driver shortage. The school system is now adjusting bus routes and assignments and encouraging families to drive students to school when possible. In a letter, schools Third child tax credit payment set to go out to families 09/15/2021 07:11am • Millions of families will soon receive their third child tax credit payments, which are set to be distributed on September 15. Most parents will automatically receive the enhanced credits of up to $300 for each child up to age 6 and $250 for each one age 6 through 17. The Internal Revenue Service Democratic divisions threaten to bog down Biden's economic package 09/13/2021 08:46pm • Senate Democrats returned to Washington on Monday suggesting they were far away from reaching a deal on a $3.5 trillion economic package, raising fresh questions about whether all 50 members of their caucus can quickly unite behind the centerpiece of President Joe Biden's agenda amid sharp divisions Vulnerable Democrats push for local priorities in budget 09/13/2021 05:05am • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — U.S. Rep. Cindy Axne of Iowa was slow to get behind a $1 trillion infrastructure bill after the Senate passed it last month. It wasn't the price tag that tripped up the Democrat from a swing House district. It was that none of the money was targeted for a home state industr Hundreds of volunteers at DC Convention Center pack meals for hungry to mark 9/11 09/11/2021 04:01pm • On the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, hundreds of volunteers gathered in a cavernous hall of the D.C. convention center to honor the victims by taking part in community service. People from fraternities and sororities and community and business groups were among up to 700 volunteers workin Hummus maker CAVA to build a packaging facility in Virginia 09/10/2021 11:46am • D.C.-based Mediterranean restaurant chain CAVA will invest $30 million in a new processing and packaging facility in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, near Staunton. (Courtesy CAVA) D.C.-based Mediterranean restaurant chain CAVA, whose hummus spreads, tzatziki, sauces and other products are carried Taco Bell wants you to send back your used sauce packets so it can reuse them 09/09/2021 08:10am • Taco Bell has a plan in place to recycle some of the 8 billion pounds of used sauce packets that go into US landfills every year. The fast food chain is rolling out a nationwide pilot program for customers to send used sauce packets back through the mail. The program, which was initially announce What federal help is still available with jobless benefits, eviction protections ending 09/09/2021 08:00am • Americans are no longer protected from evictions or receiving beefed-up unemployment payments, but they are still benefiting from many other federal coronavirus rescue measures. More support may be on the way, as Democrats on Capitol Hill hammer out a 10-year, $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation Federal unemployment ends in the DC region — how will you be impacted? 09/07/2021 06:54am • Federal unemployment benefits have ended for millions of Americans who have been hit hard by the pandemic, leaving many unsure what’s next. The federal unemployment payments of $300 a week that were extended under the American Rescue Plan stimulus package ended Monday for more than 7 million Am Labor shortage leaves union workers feeling more emboldened 09/06/2021 11:00am • NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — When negotiations failed to produce a new contract at a Volvo plant in Virginia this spring, its 2,900 workers went on strike. The company soon dangled what looked like a tempting offer — at least to the United Auto Workers local leaders who recommended it to their members Car Review: Ram 1500 TRX is a super truck with a supercharged V-8 and off-road chops 09/06/2021 04:04am •   If you are in the market for an extreme truck, here’s a whopper for you: The Ram 1500 TRX is the latest in a line of extreme pickups that would be happy racing in the desert or going deep off-road. The TRX trades in the usual Hemi V-8 you find under the hood of Ram 1500 for a superch Amazon expands Maryland, Virginia delivery station network for independent drivers 09/03/2021 08:45am • An Amazon delivery driver loads shipments into his van. (Courtesy Amazon) Amazon is opening two more delivery stations in Maryland, including one in Hanover and its first in Baltimore City, as well as its first in Fredericksburg, Virginia. It now has 15 delivery stations in Maryland, in addit Suspicious package at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling deemed not a threat 09/02/2021 06:21pm • A suspicious package at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in D.C. prompted a lockdown on Thursday afternoon but was later determined not to be a threat. The Secret Service alerted Anacostia-Bolling to a suspicious package in its building on the base just after 11 a.m. Authorities then evacuated all Virginia and Virginia Tech: Common hopes and dreams for the commonwealth couple 09/02/2021 05:27am • Quick — how many states are there in the U.S.? You might say 50, but technically you’d be wrong. Virginia is one of four “commonwealths” (Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts are the others) but the distinction is in name alone, although the term exudes something a little bit more spe