WASHINGTON (DC News Now) -- With temperatures hitting 90 degrees across the area, many people living in rent-controlled apartment buildings in D.C. are sweltering without air conditioning. That's because D.C. law says the switch to A/C isn't required until May 15. CameraConnect DC: Register security cameras to help police solve crimes D.C. Department of Energy and Environment Acting Director Richard Jackson said the two-pipe heating and cooling systems that require time-intensive switch-over are outdated and ill prepared for the District's changing climate. "An alternative to the regulation of ..read more

SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- The head of the Border Patrol's San Diego Sector says her agents encountered 9,513 migrant apprehensions from April 17-23. Chief Patrol Agent Patricia McGurk-Daniel last Thursday took to X to share the numbers, which agency officials say make it the busiest sector along the southern border this month. A local official has also labeled the region as the "epicenter for illegal immigration." In a statement late last week, San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond said that the number of apprehensions in the San Diego Sector has "propelled San Diego to the unfortunate po ..read more

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Juarez industry officials say commercial truck delays at El Paso border crossings are costing them up to $32 million a day. The delays started on Saturday when the Texas Department of Public Safety resumed enhanced safety inspections of all trucks coming across from Mexico at the Ysleta port of entry and the Bridge of the Americas. Texas inspections again snarl truck traffic at Mexican border Thor Salayandia, an official with the Mexican Chamber of Industry, said hundreds of trucks with parts and goods headed to the United States remain stranded in line at bor ..read more

ASHBURN, Va. (DC News Now) -- Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) leadership wants to hear from its community members as they work through new recommendations to improve student safety. When new Superintendent Aaron Spence came to LCPS at the beginning of the year, he stated that one of his top priorities was safety. In December, Spence convened the Blue Ribbon Panel, which was tasked with reviewing what LCPS was doing to keep students safe and analyze what more can be done ..read more

ZAPATA, Texas (Border Report) -- A local rancher is weighing the pros and cons of letting the State of Texas build a new segment of border wall, which he says is "an engineering marvel," on his rural riverfront property. 1st segment of Texas-funded border wall in Zapata County is going up Dr. Gary Schwarz is an oral surgeon from the Rio Grande Valley who owns La Perla, a deer hunting and bass fishing ranch in far western Zapata County just north of Highway 83. He also owns a nearby strip of land that goes to the Rio Grande, from where he gets water for his ranch, and that is where the state wa ..read more

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (DC News Now) -- The first weekend of an emergency underage curfew at National Harbor produced no violators, according to the Prince George's County Police Department. County Executive Angela Alsobrooks instituted it following a massive brawl that involved dozens of teenagers. Prince George’s County starts security camera rebate program in honor of 13-year-old boy who was fatally shot Parents of violators, according to the bill, would be fined $50 for the first violation, $100 for the second and $250 for every violation after that. "We don't need all that kind of nonsense ..read more

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) -- U.S. Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks joins the DC News Now Maryland Primary Senate Democratic Forum, which includes analysis of Alsobrooks' performance. Her Democratic opponent, David Trone, declined invitations to be part of the forum ..read more

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Three drivers and 24 migrants are in custody after border agents tracked a caravan of SUVs and a pickup from a highway near the border to an empty RV park near Columbus, New Mexico. Three vehicles traveling in tandem on New Mexico State Road 9 in the early hours of April 24 attracted the attention of border agents because they appeared to be following a speeding white Ford F-150. The lead truck kept going but two Ford Expedition SUVs and a Dodge Ram pickup – all with Chihuahua, Mexico, license plates – pulled into an RV park along NM 9, about 2 miles north of t ..read more

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) -- Hallie Simmons and Chidi Olujie are American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters for D.C. Mayor Murial Bowser. They work out of the Office of Disability Rights, and they have been working together full time for the District for less than a year, but they have built and embraced the collective responsibility ..read more

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- With Google announcing a $1 billion investment to expand three data centers in northern Virginia, the Commonwealth continues to solidify itself as the data center capital of the world. Virginia is home to the largest concentration of data centers in the world, but that doesn’t come without controversy. Opponents of data centers say they’re bad for the environment and strain the state’s electric grid. “If we don’t do anything about putting in safeguards, it’s going to require 40% of all Dominion’s power going to go to data centers.” Tim Cywinski from the Sierra Club told ..read more