Talking Local

The new local home page on Washingtonpost.com is designed to be your one-stop shop for all the latest area news, entertainment, sports, traffic, weather, tips, tools and other information to help manage daily life in our vibrant region.

We've introduced several new features highlighted in this brief tour. Most important, we want your feedback and ideas so we can keep making improvements, on this page and our coverage in general. You can leave questions and comments on this blog; we'll jump into the conversation as much as we can. Or, you can take a quick survey.

Here are the highlights:

Our new mast -- the gray, top strip of the page -- has a bolder look.Notice the weather forecast in the middle of the mast: by clicking the "customize" link, you can set it to render weather for your zip code.

And on the left, under the Washington Post logo, is a link that lets you set this new local page as your starting point on Washington Post.com. Any time you want national and world news, simply click the "National" tab, on the left side of the navigation bar, next to the darkened "Local" tab.