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In less than two decades, immigrants from Latin America, Asia, the Pacific Islands, Africa and the Caribbean have significantly changed the District’s ethnic composition, according to a recently released report by the Bowser administration.

When Sheryl Connelly was growing up in Metro Detroit, she worried that the ease of newfangled power steering was going to lull Americans into oblivion.

As bike lanes popped up across the city, the owners of Bicycle Space hoped to capi­tal­ize on a growing cycling craze when they leased a prime storefront three years ago in Northwest Washington.

After a year marked by a rise in traffic fatalities, the District is entering 2019 with a plan city officials hope will make streets safer for its 700,000 residents and the hundreds of thousands more who visit and work in the nation’s…

D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham took an unusually sharp swipe at a council member on Friday, saying criticism of police aired at a public hearing over the summer “emboldened” criminals on one troubled street.

Seventeen (and counting) Advisory Neighborhood Comissioners are pledging to give up their free parking passes, making them our latest Urbanist Heroes of the Week. Signees are urging the DC Council to prioritize making the city better for…

Congestion relief could be coming for Amtrak’s crowded concourse at Union Station, the second busiest train station in the nation.

Get ready for more dockless electric bikes and electric scooters in the District in 2019.

The defensive marketing of the D.C. school system by educators and city leaders can mask real problems that undercut the District’s public education system. One such issue involves the official who is the hub of every school’s wheel: the…

Images of overflowing garbage cans and litter around the National Mall are a federal government shutdown classic. But things aren’t nearly as bad as one might think from a handful of posts on social media showing trash pile-ups.

WASHINGTON — The arrest of two suspected drug dealers has led to the seizure of a cache of weapons, millions of dollars of heroin and a Maserati, District and federal officials announced Friday.

In October, Ford announced that it will begin testing self-driving vehicles on D.C. streets, offering urban planners, policymakers and residents a window into how mobility-on-demand autonomous vehicles can redefine transportation.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced last year that the District would be the corporate testing ground for Ford’s driverless vehicles. Throughout our careers in highway and auto safety, we have strongly and successfully advocated for…

The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested two people in connection with a large seizure of illegal guns and drugs. Officers seized more than 88 pounds of heroin in the bust, making it the largest heroin seizure in D.C.-area history,…

U.S. House leadership has endorsed statehood for the District of Columbia, including in the first bill filed in the new Congress language that would provide D.C. with two senators and a representative, all with full voting rights.

If you’re passionate about food and considering opening a restaurant of your own, Dan Simons of Founding Farmers has just one word of advice: “Don’t.”

The 2019 St. Patrick's Day parade in D.C. has been canceled due to the rising cost of security.

The percentage of cash home sales in DC in 2018 remained consistent with previous years. 

Passengers on Washington, DC's Metrorail will be allowed to bring bicycles on board trains during rush hour starting next week.

The 115th Congress has officially been sworn in, and so far, the bill with the most co-sponsors is H.R. 51—the bill that would grant D.C. statehood. (D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton says she specifically reserved that number, because…