Washington D.C. Travel News

RESTON, Va.-Monday morning offered a smooth first commute for Silver Line riders following the rail line's kickoff on Saturday, with nearly 10,000 entries or exits at Northern Virginia's five new stations as of 10 a.m. Commuters widely praised the new rail line, the first for the D.C. region in 23 years.

The nation's oldest living female World War II veteran has finally made it to Washington to see the monuments and memorials.

Here are Ingar Grev 's favorite smartphone apps. Grev is the founder of The Strategy Tank, a think tank for CEOs, and owner of the Washington, D.C.-area franchise of The Growth Coach.

Boston is one of the more walkable major cities in the United States and is on its way to becoming the most-walkable, according to a new report from a Washington D.C.-based research group and George Washington University.

This is not a political diary, so my apologies for that, but many are familiar with the DC area, so that's why I wrote this diary.

Ryan Russell never thought he would come back to Pittsburgh. He wanted to pursue a career in international affairs, something he felt wasn't possible to do here.

Leave it to the National Bureau of Economic Research to throw a thick, wet blanket on Pittsburgh's positive rankings parade.

You'd think that in the 21st Century, we could do things better than we did in the 1930's.

Speaking of Washington D.C. today, we happened to stumble across these special amenities for women offered at the Four Seasons Washington, D.C. .

Even with a big walk-in closet all to himself, one of Suzette Smith's clients, whom she calls "The Bachelor," needs a lot of help.

Bars at the top hotels used to be the place to grab a cocktail. After falling out of style, they're back and ready to compete with speakeasies from New Orleans to NYC.

On July 23, 2014 a section of Ghanaians living in the east coast of the United States of America gathered at the embassy of Ghana in Washington DC to demonstrate against what they say is bad governance that has brought economic woes to the people of Ghana.

Saturday is a historic day for mass transit in the United States: it marks the opening of a $3 billion, 11.7 mile-stretch of rail called the Silver Line which will serve the nation's capital and its suburbs, the first new stations in the 106-mile Metro system since 2004.

Warrenton, Va.-The Virginia News Group today appointed Steve Campbell executive editor of its Piedmont Division which includes the flagship publication Fauquier Times , as well as Gainesville Times and Prince William Times .

A new exhibition on the history and evolution of air travel to the Hawaiian Islands opens today at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. " Hawaii by Air " features Hawaiian travel posters, photographs and ephemera from the museum's collections that show how air travel to Hawaii developed, how the travel experience ... (more)

Redskins Training Camp - July 24-August 11, 2014. Redskins Park, Richmond, Virginia.

Architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien will receive the National Medal of Arts, the U.S. government's highest award given to artists and art patrons.

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Davis Brody Bond has completed the South African embassy in Washington, D.C. The architecture firm modernized the existing complex by rehabilitating two historic Dutch Cape-style buildings on Embassy Row: the Ambassador's Residence from 1936 and the Chancery, built in 1963.

Ron Carver tells the story of a critical juncture when CWA lent invaluable help in the efforts to reclaim the paintings of Ralph Fasanella for display in the public domain.