2022

Poor communication and incident management have caused problems for Metro during past emergencies and a new audit from the Metrorail Safety Commission demands changes.

Delbert “Del” McFadden, the inaugural Executive Director of D.C.’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement, has resigned from his role, according to a spokesperson for D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.

The District's new stand-alone tax abatement tool is intended to bring more crucial affordability to housing projects in more well-heeled neighborhoods that otherwise might not offer it — all in a bid to meet the swelling need for…

As drug overdoses reach a record-setting high nationally, several neighborhood leaders in D.C. are urging officials to take immediate action.

A bill that would give DC residents $100 per month to use on SmarTrip-eligible transit is getting a public hearing Wednesday in the DC Council.

The drama-junkie symbols of our country laid two eggs last week. A third could be on the way. But where is First Lady???

Cava Group Inc. plans to uproot its headquarters from D.C.'s Chinatown for a new home at the Wegmans-anchored City Ridge mixed-use development in Upper Northwest.

The Sandlot has generally billed itself as a cultural and social hub for the D.C.-area neighborhoods that house it. For Anacostia, it plans to do even more when it opens there.

Amid rising concern about violent crime in DC, the founding director of the District's Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement — which runs the mayor's violence interruption program — has resigned.

A regulator says Metro continues to struggle with communication and coordination among various agencies

Studio Theatre has won 72 Helen Hayes Awards since it first opened back in 1978.

Eric Ellsworth recently moved back to D.C. from Massachusetts, bringing his family’s 2020 plug-in hybrid-electric minivan to his new rowhouse on Capitol Hill.

Metro can’t even get hacked right.

The University of the District Columbia said it received a $200,000 donation Saturday from businessman Ted Leonsis’s charitable foundation and professional sports ownership group as the school kicked off a sports-related fundraising drive.…

More people died at the hands of D.C. police officers in 2021 than in 2020, and the city’s police chief believes it’s due in part to a rise in violence and the stress it puts on officers in the field.

Inspired by the trucker convoy in Canada, a group from California says it will now head to D.C. to protest COVID-19 restrictions.

Howard University has received a $2 million donation to digitize a major collection of Black newspaper archives in hopes of making it more broadly available to researchers and the public.

A number of groups are organizing convoys of truckers to drive to D.C. to stage protests against pandemic restrictions, similar to those that have recently paralyzed Ottawa, the Canadian capital. That convoy blocked a key border crossing…