2019

Sugar Fox opens March 16 with plenty of sweet treats

One year ago, our region was on the brink of a historic moment. Regional leaders came together to provide Metro with the $500 million in additional, annual, dedicated funding needed to support the future safety, reliability and vitality of…

D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton is more bullish than ever on statehood.

A federal court recently dismissed a suit that challenged a new D.C. regulation that requires lead teachers in District child development centers to earn associate degrees and boosts education credentials for other teachers and caregivers.…

A D.C. government employee has pleaded guilty to federal charges that he issued more than $1.45 million in food stamps and welfare benefits in exchange for sexual favors and $380,000.

TGIF! Council members are at a retreat at the convention center, where the day's agenda included an ethics lecture:

The new private school coming to the former Intelsat headquarters remains on schedule to open for classes Sept. 5, according to Chairman and CEO Chris Whittle, after D.C. officials imposed a stop-work order because the project lacked a…

On paper, D.C. Council members are supposed to spend their constituent service funds helping out needy residents who’ve fallen behind on a utility bill or can’t afford funeral expenses.

They took the Metro downtown and marched from White House to Capitol.

In her March 12 Metro column, “GOP once championed statehood for D.C.,” Petula Dvorak made another pitch for D.C. statehood, giving the District two Senate seats and one House seat.

On Wednesday night, a collaborator of the artist Robin Bell, who has been projecting words and images onto D.C. buildings for years, was arrested by Capitol Police. Capitol Police also seized a projector, laptop computer, battery and stand…

The transit agency is asking for firms that could offer on-demand transportation to overnight workers

This year’s Smithsonian Folklife Festival is going to be a two-day event, rather than the 10 days the program has been in recent years.

The Smithsonian Institution has canceled this summer’s 10-day Folklife Festival celebrating the music and culture of Benin and Brazil and will replace it with a smaller event.

D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) faces the threat of a recall election as political fallout from an ongoing federal probe into his business dealings continues to grow.

Metro will increase service on the Yellow and Red lines next year, doubling the number of trains at a dozen stations in hopes of boosting ridership as the system continues to undergo substantial rebuilding and truncated hours to address a…