Category Archives: Local News

By WMAL.comD.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced on Monday that her office was creating plans to hire 350 law enforcement officers to replace the officers that left the force over the mandated COVID-19 v...

By WMAL.comRICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia lawmakers on Monday began a special legislative session focused on ending a stalemate over the state budget and finishing work on bills left unresolved at the ...

By WMAL.comFormer Virginia Governor Ralph Northam's administration was found responsible for not doing enough to mitigate the miles long traffic jam on Interstate 95 during a snowstorm in early Januar...

By WMAL.comMaryland Governor Larry Hogan was in Florida last week, where he criticized Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for his remarks threatening retaliation for Disney's opposition to his Parental Rig...

By WMAL.comGovernor Glenn Youngkin had a busy Friday, signing more than 40 pieces of legislation into law. The bills signed cover issues across the policy spectrum, but most notably included measures ...

WASHINGTON — (AP) Over a year ago, two off-duty police officers from a small town in Virginia were charged with storming the U.S. Capitol together. A trial for one of them starts this week. The ...

By WMAL.comFive days after a county judge struck down the democrats proposed congressional map the Maryland General Assembly passed a new map without the support of their republican colleagues. Maryla...

By WMAL.comVirginia Attorney General Jason Miyares announced that his office was filing an amicus brief against Thomas Jefferson High School of employing discriminatory and illegal admissions practice...

By WMAL.comAfter calling state legislators back to Richmond for a special session to pass a state budget, Governor Youngkin's $5.5 billion package of proposed tax cuts remains stuck in gridlock betwee...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - The Democrat-controlled Maryland General Assembly approved a quickly redrawn congressional map on Wednesday, five days after a judge struck down the one lawmakers approved in Dec...