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At a meeting Tuesday night, Dupont Circle residents expressed frustration that the District Department of Transportation is abandoning plans for protected bike lanes on Connecticut Avenue, at least for the near future.

Jack Coogan, 26, loves his weekly softball games on the grassy fields of West Potomac Park. He loves the chance to run after working all day as an accountant. He loves the camaraderie of his close-knit team, made up of fellow alumni of…

A new bill introduced at the D.C. Council would ban the use of electric scooters at night, reduce the scooter speed limit on sidewalks, and set up new rules for parking the vehicles.

The Current was Washington’s most parochial publication — and that was the best thing about it

DC has a city-sponsored woonerf on the way in the middle of Dupont Circle.

Eighteen wooden desktops, like the kind children use at school, hang from one wall of the H-Space gallery off U Street. The artist, Mònica Pagès, treated each one differently, like she would a child. She titled the piece “I Am Safe.”

As residents describe what appears to be more frequent and louder airplane and helicopter flights over neighborhoods, the House passed an amendment that would direct the Federal Aviation Administration to prioritize combating the noise.

E-scooters in D.C. would see stricter regulations — including an overnight ban on riding e-scooters — under proposed legislation from the D.C. Council.

D.C. Council member Jack Evans has done his colleagues a favor. As he succumbs to charges of corruption, he’s given them the opportunity to exercise true oversight on the sole-source sports betting contract he maneuvered through the D.C.…

A man who was shot by a D.C. police officer during a traffic stop Sunday refused to comply with commands to stay still after a high-capacity gun magazine was found on his lap, according to an arrest affidavit filed in court.

A pair of D.C. Council members on Tuesday unsuccessfully tried to block a contract for a developer under scrutiny for winning millions to build affordable housing despite submitting a low-scoring proposal.

A bill introduced by Council member Mary M. Cheh would set rules for where scooters can be parked, establish new speed limits and set hours for their use

Multiple councilmembers have called for a Metro Transit Police officer to be taken off of active duty while the agency completes an investigation into his use of a taser on an unarmed man at the U Street station over the weekend.

A whistleblower is claiming District officials bumped a project to the front of the line for affordable housing funding to favor some politically connected developers, two D.C. councilmembers said Tuesday.

The rides are being offered through a one-year, $1 million pilot program

They thought they’d never get there.

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson announced this week that Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans would not run the public roundtable discussion on the proposed $215 million, sole-source contract to run D.C.’s new sports gambling program and…

One of the companies operating dockless e-scooters in the District has spent the past few weeks putting out fires.

Sibley Memorial Hospital and Unity Health Care are jointly opening a cancer clinic on the eastern side of the District, as residents in wards 7 and 8 continue to grapple with a lack of nearby specialty services.

Paul Trantham was walking home from the store when he saw a black car slow and a man inside point what looked like a rifle out a passenger window.