ANALYSIS/OPINION:

When one of the region's most respected lawmakers calls, you answer the phone.

"There is no Plan B" for shoring up and sustaining Metro, Board Chairman Jack Evans told me Thursday morning.

"We need $25 billion. We need a big chunk of money. We need $650 million a year. ...

When John Edmonds was a teenager, a Maryland judge gave him an ultimatum: After racking up 16 felonies and struggling with addiction, he could either go to juvenile prison or a treatment program. He chose the latter and was sent to Phoenix High School, a public school in Montgomery County ...

A major manufacturer of cleaning products is suing the District of Columbia over what its in-house counsel calls a "fatally flawed" ban on the marketing of "flushable" sanitary wipes, Washington's WTOP Radio reported Thursday. 

Kimberly-Clark's filing with the federal district court in D.C. pursues multiple avenues of ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has announced a $9 billion plan to widen Interstate 270, the Capital Beltway and the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in the suburbs of the nation's capital.

Hogan said Thursday the work on the three major state highways will reduce congestion for millions of drivers.

Both the Democrat and Republican in Virginia's governor's race say the state doesn't have any sanctuary cities — contradicting the Trump administration, which earlier this year fingered two counties as sanctuaries for refusing to fully cooperate with deportations.

But despite their apparent agreement, GOP candidate Ed Gillespie rolled out a ...