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After the 'yes': Advice for the newly engaged 01/17/2019 05:06am • WASHINGTON — "To everything there is a season," the Bible tells us, and that includes engagements. While some of you have been stressing about baking pies, shopping for gifts and then exercising off all that pie, others have been dropping to a knee, Putting a Ring on It and making big plans. What to expect on Metro, area transit with long weekend, marches 01/17/2019 04:37am • WASHINGTON — The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend and two separate marches in downtown D.C. mean traffic and transit changes for the region from Friday through Monday. Friday The annual March for Life leads to parking restrictions and road closures Friday around Capital One Arena and betwe Broccoli City Festival unveils 2019 lineup with Childish Gambino, Lil Wayne 01/16/2019 06:03pm • WASHINGTON — Broccoli City Festival revealed this year's musical lineup Wednesday, featuring big names in hip-hop and R&B to play in the D.C. area. Multihyphenate Childish Gambino and rap trailblazer Lil Wayne take top billing, with R&B visionary Teyana Taylor, "Boo'd Up" singer Ella M Women's March gets a location change amid shutdown 01/16/2019 02:32pm • WASHINGTON — The Women's March is no longer happening on the National Mall this weekend. Organizers say the event is being required to move because of the partial federal government shutdown and because of the possibility of bad weather. UPDATE: They can't shutdown the #WomensWave...but Watch for icy patches on sidewalks and roads 01/15/2019 07:20am • WASHINGTON — Even though the D.C. area saw itself thaw out Monday after the weekend snowstorm, subfreezing temperatures overnight froze everything that melted, making for patches of black ice and some mass transit delays. Listen to WTOP online and on the radio at 103.5 FM or 107.7 FM. Shopping holidays: Best days to shop in 2019 01/08/2019 10:00am • If saving money is on your list of New Year's resolutions, but you love to shop, here's some good news: You don't have to cut shopping out of your life. Timing is everything in the retail world. And knowing when seasonal items are likely to go on sale and when major sales take place allows you to Blue, Yellow Line single-tracking, end of Saturday Metro parking fees this weekend 01/04/2019 09:45am • WASHINGTON — Blue and Yellow Line trains are cut back to every 20 minutes each this weekend, but the biggest change for Metro may be the elimination of short-lived Saturday parking fees. Blue and Yellow Line trains are scheduled to single-track between Pentagon City and Reagan National Airport. Metro eliminates Saturday parking fees 01/04/2019 05:12am • WASHINGTON — Starting this weekend, Metro will no longer have parking fees on Saturdays. A $2 fee for weekend parking at Metro facilities had been implemented a year ago as part of a pilot program, but it is now being scrapped. "Riders who use Metrorail will park for free on Saturday, with t 50 ways to improve your finances in 2019 01/01/2019 09:00am • Ring in the new year. The start of a new year is a time to make financial resolutions, ditch bad money habits and consider ways to improve your financial health. Throughout the past year, U.S. News has published stories with great advice on how to save money, pay down debt and reach your financi MARC plans extra service for Women’s March, Metro plans no track work 12/20/2018 11:23am • WASHINGTON — Expecting big crowds for a third-annual protest against President Donald Trump, Maryland’s MARC Train has already announced extra service Jan. 19 for the Women’s March on Washington. Metro plans to avoid any track work. MARC plans to run a special schedule on the Penn Line betw 6 dogs adopted during Del. 'mega' event diagnosed with parvo 12/18/2018 09:46am • HARRINGTON, Del. (AP) — At least six dogs adopted during a "Mega Adoption Event" in Delaware have been diagnosed with the highly contagious canine parvovirus. News outlets reports more than one of the dogs diagnosed with parvo have died since the Brandywine Valley SPCA's event, which took place It's official: 2018 is DC's wettest year on record 12/15/2018 07:42am • WASHINGTON — 2018 will officially go down as D.C.'s wettest calendar year on record. The National Weather Service (NWS) announced that Reagan Airport's total observed rainfall for the year had reached 61.34 inches at exactly 6:26 a.m. on Saturday, shattering D.C.'s old record of 61.33 inches se Over the top: Friday rain snarls commute; wet-weather record likely to fall by Sunday 12/14/2018 10:20pm • WASHINGTON — The longest rain-free stretch of the year in the WTOP listening area came to an end on Friday afternoon. By 9:30 p.m. about .13 inches of rain made 2018 the second rainiest year on record, with plenty more precipitation to come both Friday night and Saturday. Only about .43 inc Wreaths Across America will limit Metro single-tracking, close roads this weekend 12/14/2018 10:10am • WASHINGTON — Metro expects major crowds Saturday for Wreaths Across America, and so has limited some Saturday track work. Single-tracking on the Blue Line is not scheduled to begin until 10 p.m. Saturday. The Blue Line will run on a regular weekend schedule until then. Still, since the north No across-the-board Metro fare hikes, but some riders on track to pay more 12/13/2018 04:49pm • WASHINGTON — Metrorail riders may see targeted fare increases at certain times next year, but will not face across-the-board fare hikes, a series of votes Thursday by the Metro Board assured. Metro will now charge riders more to ride on weekends or holidays when there are large regional events