Category Archives: Local News

Heather CurtisWMAL.comWASHINGTON — (WMAL) Metro will operate trains and busses with limited service Monday.Only underground metro trains will run tomorrow on the Red, Orange and Green Lines. The...

Daniela BersonWMAL.comROCKVILLE — (WMAL) The District of Columbia, Montgomery County, Prince George’s County and the City of Fairfax will not be collecting trash on Monday.Garbage collecti...

Daniela BersonWMAL.comWASHINGTON — (WMAL) A U.S. Capitol Police officer died Saturday while shoveling snow outside his home.Vernon J. Alston, an officer on the Hill for almost 20 years, collapse...

Daniela Berson WMAL.com ANNAPOLIS, MD — (WMAL) Maryland Governor Larry announced today that Maryland emergency response teams are moving into recovery phase. During the snowstorm, emergency pers...

Daniela Berson WMAL.com WASHINGTON — (WMAL) Humans aren’t the only ones playing outside in the snow today. Bao Bao, a panda at the National Zoo, kicked back with a sugar cane this morning....

Daniela Berson WMAL.com FREDERICK, MD — (WMAL) Maryland Governor Larry Hogan has closed all of I-270 and I-70 from I-81 in order to clear the interstates of snow. The highways will re-open at 7 ...

  Heather Curtis WMAL.com STERLING, VA — (WMAL) The meteorologists at the National Weather Service in Sterling are used to camping out in their office during major storms, so they were prep...

Daniela BersonWMAL.comWASHINGTON — (WMAL) Mayor Muriel Bowser is urging D.C. residents to stay inside for the rest of the blizzard.Bowser said that over 20 inches of snow has fallen in the Distr...

Dave Sweet WMAL.com WASHINGTON — (WMAL) Crews are ready to repair power lines as necessary in the D.C. area as the blizzard of 2016 continues on into Saturday. “We have commitments from as...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) The massive winter storm pummeling the Mid-Atlantic is expected to dump some 2 feet of snow on Washington, D.C. by Saturday night, enough to shut the city down at least throug...