The Washington Regional Alcohol Program (WRAP), a local nonprofit, announced that it will again offer free rides during Super Bowl weekend to help reduce impaired driving across the Washington metropolitan […]
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WSSC Water is urging its approximately 1.9 million customers in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties to immediately limit water use to essential purposes only, citing extreme cold weather conditions.
Ahead of this past weekend’s winter storm, NBC4 meteorologist Chuck Bell set expectations for an extended regional shutdown as the system approached the DC area, saying he did not believe a single school district in the DMV would be open for even one day this week. On Monday, Bell doubled down on that assessment, saying there is a “very high chance that school closures could go a long way into the week.”
Maryland Comptroller Brooke E. Lierman announced the start of the state’s 2026 tax return filing season, with return processing beginning the week of January 26 and expected to ramp up on February 2.
Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown and a bipartisan coalition of 33 attorneys general have called on xAI, which owns the X platform and the AI chatbot Grok, to take stronger steps to prevent the generation of nonconsensual intimate images and child sexual abuse material.
Dangerously cold air is settling across much of the eastern United States, and all of Maryland is expected to remain locked in a prolonged stretch of extreme cold through the end of January and into early February.
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As the region keeps an eye on a potential storm that is now expected to track east and miss the area, the Apple Weather app once again raised eyebrows by briefly showing the possibility of a foot of snow.
The region continues digging out from a winter storm that dropped between 5 and 10 inches of snow and sleet across most of the county, with a few isolated areas reporting even higher totals (or 29 inches if you have an iPhone 😊).
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, and a new nationwide study offers a fresh look at where romance is thriving across the country in 2026. Maryland came in ranked as the 9th most romantic state in the country.
As storm clean-up continues in frigid temperatures and we await any additional impacts on schools and schedules, you may have seen maps circulating online suggesting the potential for a major storm this weekend. At this point, that scenario remains firmly in the “monitoring” phase.
The Great Big Game Show is set to open a new location at Arundel Mills in Hanover, MD. (more…)