2019

The alliance of business and nonprofit groups that successfully lobbied for last year’s historic Metro funding agreement wants to use its clout to dramatically improve the Washington region’s bus system.

When the Rev. Brian J. Lee and his congregation began renting Grace Reformed Church in downtown Washington eight years ago, he knew the building’s storied past — that Theodore Roosevelt worshiped there during his years as vice president…

D.C. education officials are investigating special-education services at a charter school that serves more than 600 students in preschool through sixth grade.

Jaquan Greene buckled the scuba vest, adjusted his goggles and stuck the regulator — the device that delivered air from the gas tank strapped to his back — into his mouth.

One renter says the strike will continue "as long as it needs to"

Seven On Your Side has learned Advisory Neighborhood Commission 8E's finances have been frozen, as the city investigates suspicious transactions from the commission's bank account.

An ambitious plan to complete a network of nearly 900 miles of trails connecting the Washington region could be accomplished with an investment of just over $1 billion, according to a coalition of nonprofits, business and government…

Metro announced Friday that full cell service is now available through four major wireless carriers on the entirety of the Green Line.

Fourteen stairs. I count each as Erica Chance and I walk from the first to the second floor of her home in Northeast Washington. In my hands, I hold a notebook that weighs ounces. In her arms, she holds her 5-year-old son, Ayden, who…

Please keep Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans' ride your thoughts and prayers, D.C. The old girl isn't doing so well.

"They’ve seen and walked into the units, but they just choose not to repair them."

News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton December 6, 2019 Contact: Jack Miller WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), who strongly supported House passage of the Voting Rights Advancement Act (H.R. 4),…

A controversy swirling around the Northern Bus Garage in Petworth has come to a head at multiple public meetings and residents are pointing fingers at WMATA and D.C. government officials.

Tensions in Brookland were running high this spring. Newer residents had started calling the police on children and teenagers after school as they were walking home and stopping by convenience stores — something most kids are prone to do. …

D.C. Public Schools received well-deserved praise for its recent scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a.k.a. “The Nation’s Report Card.” Of the 27 urban districts that took the test in 2019, DCPS improved the…

Some Verizon customers in Northwest Washington have been without service most of the week after a contractor for the company “inadvertently” cut cables in Georgetown, the company said.

Julia Flores has lived in a rent-controlled apartment in Columbia Heights since the 1990s — a small studio where she raised both her daughters.

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBY) will close its Chinatown location next year, a company spokesperson confirmed to the Washington Business Journal.

WASHINGTON – As the public demand for new museums increases, the Smithsonian Institution’s chief says his top priority is getting on top of a huge maintenance backlog at the world’s largest museum and research complex before he considers…