Naomi Jagoda

Updated: Sun, Feb 24, 2013

A car went off the Arlington Memorial Bridge and into water Sunday night, officials said. The driver of the vehicle managed to get himself out of the car once it was in the water. When D.C. Fire and emergency personnel arrived at the scene, the driver was at the shoreline, spokesman Lon Walls...

Steve Contorno

Published: Sun, Feb 24, 2013

RICHMOND -- Gov. Bob McDonnell overcame history and at times his own Republican Party to finally pass a legacy-defining financial fix to Virginia's long-standing road woes. Virginia governors are rarely effective in the fourth and final year of their one-term reigns. Yet over the course of the...

Steve Contorno

Published: Sat, Feb 23, 2013

RICHMOND -- The Virginia Senate on Saturday reached a historic agreement that raises $880 million a year in new taxes and fees to fix roads and unclog congested highways in the D.C. region. The plan, approved earlier by the House, now goes to Gov. Bob McDonnell, who becomes the first governor...

Taylor Holland

Published: Sat, Feb 23, 2013

Steep gas prices are already draining the wallets of D.C. commuters, but Maryland lawmakers may still drive the price up further by raising taxes on gas to pay for roads. Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr., D-Prince George's and Calvert counties, last week proposed levying a 3 percent...

Steve Contorno

Updated: Fri, Feb 22, 2013

A historic compromise that would pay to fix Virginia's crumbling, crowded roads will have to wait at least one more day after the Senate left Friday night without taking a vote. Hours earlier, the Virginia House of Delegates voted 60-40 to raise taxes and fees to pump $880 million a year into...

Kate Jacobson

Updated: Thu, Feb 21, 2013

Route 355 is the only road in Montgomery County that could support a two-way bus lane, county planners said Thursday as they presented a scaled-back bus rapid system to the county's Planning Board. Planners are pitching a 78-mile system that would include eight corridors in the center and...

Steve Contorno

Published: Thu, Feb 21, 2013

RICHMOND - A measure that would finally address the state's crumbling, crowded roads but also raise taxes and fees has already divided the two -- and possibly three -- candidates for governor. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli denounced the package Thursday as an "enormous tax increase" that...

Steve Contorno

Updated: Wed, Feb 20, 2013

Virginia House and Senate budget negotiators on Wednesday agreed to a plan that would pay for much-needed repairs to crumbling roads and fund new transportation projects for one of the most congested highway networks in the country. A full vote is expected later this week. It would then go to...

Liz Essley

Updated: Wed, Feb 20, 2013

The Washington area has a new top airport. For the first time since 2003, more passengers used Baltimore Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport than Washington Dulles International Airport. BWI had 22.7 million passengers last year, beating out Dulles' 22.6 million -- a...

Andy Brownfield

Updated: Wed, Feb 20, 2013

ANNAPOLIS -- A Maryland Senate panel on Wednesday considered proposals to raise money for the state's nearly bankrupt transportation fund, including one from the Senate president that would levy a sales tax on gasoline, allow counties to create their own gas taxes and create regional transit...