The Accotink flows in Fairfax County, just a few hundred yards from the future site of toll lanes on the Capital Beltway.

Kris Unger with the Sierra Club says much of the dredged-up dirt from the Beltway construction project is draining into the creek. He points out a makeshift plastic fenc...

The Washington Post has endorsed Democrat Creigh Deeds for Virginia Governor. In its 1,400 word editorial Sunday, the Post's editors wrote that transportation is the "central challenge" facing any Virginia governor.

They claim Deeds was the "only" candidate to provide a "common sense" appro...

An agency helping D.C.'s Latino community jump on the property ladder is shifting into high gear, as the deadline approaches on a federal tax credit for first-time home buyers.

The Latino Economic Development Corporation helps low-to-moderate income residents buy their first home using gove...

A new farmer's market is trying to establish roots in downtown D.C. Recently, on the lawn of the market at Mt. Vernon Square, Pennsylvania farmer Carl Purvenas-Smith set out jams and jellies at the new Liberty Market. "For the same amount of time and effort we would expend going to the square i...

(October 18-28) SAMPLING WRITERS The Washington DC Jewish Community Center presents the 2009 Jewish Literary Festival through next Wednesday. The festival celebrates this year's best works by emerging and established writers with panel discussions, readings and talks for lovers of fiction, poetr...

Much of the Chesapeake's pollution comes from industrial farms. Their fertilizer and livestock waste drain into the Bay.

Democrat Ben Cardin of Maryland says state regulation isn't working. "The [Chesapeake] Bay Program has not reached it's goals in the last couple cycles," he says.

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