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Why DC apartment renters are squeezed by high housing costs (and how to get that lease) 04/07/2025 12:39pm • The D.C. metro’s apartment rental market enters the spring search time frame as one of the most competitive in the nation. RentCafe ranks the D.C. market as its most popular for searches in March for the fifth month in a row. In March, there were an average of seven lease applications for every RealPage sues California city officials over rental algorithm ban 04/04/2025 10:54am • Real estate software company RealPage filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against Berkeley, California — the latest city to try to block landlords from using algorithms when deciding rents. Officials in many cities claim the practice is anti-competitive and is driving up the price of housing. Texas- DC Getaway: 3 unforgettable nature and wildlife adventures in the Ozarks, Missouri  04/04/2025 05:26am • Since the 70s, Bass Pro Shops founder Johnny Morris has encouraged people to adventure outdoors. Introducing folks to the great outdoors is an integral part of the lifelong conservationist’s creation of The Johnny Morris Conservation Foundation — a nonprofit operating some of America’s most sp Living abroad and hungry to see a Chinese movie on the biggest of screens, some took action 04/04/2025 12:06am • COLUMBIA, Md. (AP) — A group of Chinese people decided they wanted the nation's biggest movie to be big in the United States, literally. So they made it really big. And therein lies a story. On a recent Saturday afternoon, more than 100 people gathered at an IMAX screening room in a movie theater Prosecution adds former US attorney to University of Idaho quadruple murder case 04/03/2025 10:52pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s recently departed U.S. attorney has joined the prosecution team in the case against Bryan Kohberger, the man charged in the killings of four University of Idaho students in 2022. Joshua Hurwit will be a special deputy prosecuting attorney for the state in the murder Long-planned redevelopment of former Georgetown gas station breaks ground 04/02/2025 11:42am • Georgetown developer EastBanc has broken ground on the redevelopment of a small but prime piece of Pennsylvania Avenue real estate at the eastern entrance of Georgetown. For decades, the triangle-shaped lot where Pennsylvania Avenue merges with M Street at 27th Street, across the street from the Moore says tax cuts give 'breathing room to middle class' 03/28/2025 10:19am • Gov. Wes Moore said the fiscal 2026 budget needs to give a tax break to middle-class taxpayers, but he sidestepped questions on whether the plan currently steaming through the legislature provides meaningful relief. Lawmakers have just over a week to finalize a $67 billion spending plan that incl Prince George’s Council shakes up leadership, names youngest council chair ever 03/26/2025 06:31am • A sudden leadership shake-up has transformed the Prince George’s County Council, with District 8 Council member Ed Burroughs becoming the youngest council chair ever. Burroughs, 32, replaces former Chair Jolene Ivey who announced last month she'd be suspending her campaign for the county execut The Key Bridge, One Year Later: How life has changed in Baltimore Co. since the bridge collapse 03/26/2025 04:22am • It's been a year since the crash that collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge into the waters of the Patapsco River in Baltimore. An expedited cleanup mission got the wreckage out of the water and opened up the channels that allowed cruise and cargo ships to return to Baltimore within a couple Back to the office may mean back to scooters and bikes. Lime ridership jumps 03/12/2025 11:33am • Lime, one of three shared mobility electric scooter and bike companies currently operating in the District, says ridership in February was 35% higher than it was in January, and was up 40% from February of last year. According to Lime, almost 63,000 riders in D.C. took a total of 322,000 rides on DC rents are rising — and some vary by more than $1,000 a month 03/07/2025 09:05am • As the busy spring apartment rental season gears up, landlords are raising rents in the D.C. region. But, average monthly rents across the D.C. metro vary by as much as $1,000 a month in the most populous rental markets. Redfin reports average rents in the District rose 2.7% in February, after fa Md. man didn't know car he rented was reported stolen, until police held him at gunpoint 03/06/2025 09:28pm • A Maryland man says his vacation to Arizona, where he was visiting family for a baby shower earlier this winter, turned into the worst experience of his life — one that could have left him dead. A month later, he's still demanding answers from an online rental car company that put him behin 2 DC police officers involved in moped driver's death reinstated after Trump pardons 03/04/2025 01:05pm • Two D.C. police officers involved in a pursuit that left a moped driver dead are now back on the force after being pardoned by President Donald Trump in January. Lt. Andrew Zabavsky and officer Terence Sutton had been convicted on charges related to a 2020 pursuit that ended with 20-year-old Karo NHL trade season is well underway, with plenty more moves expected before the deadline Friday 03/02/2025 11:23am • Mikko Rantanen could be on the move again if Carolina cannot sign him to an extension. Brock Nelson, Erik Karlsson and brothers Brayden and Luke Schenn are all in the mix. Seth Jones, Ryan Lindgren and Gustav Nyquist have already changed teams. And there is still plenty of time before the NHL tra Balancing the Housing Equation: How unique partnerships can help overcome affordable housing crisis 02/21/2025 04:27pm • This content is sponsored by Volunteers of America National Services. The need for affordable housing is growing and has intensified with the aging of the population in communities across the country. The rising number of seniors creates more challenges, but housing advocates and political