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The first 7000-series train was back on Metro’s tracks Friday nearly two months after a derailment led the subway system to order the railcars out of service.

It’s been 61 days since Metrorail riders have seen a 7000-series train on the tracks, but today they’re back. Two of Metro’s newest trains are in passenger service, one on the Blue Line and one on the Silver Line.

D.C. has one of the highest teacher turnover rates in the county, according to the D.C. State Board of Education.

Mayor Muriel Bowser is taking another swing at affordable housing west of Rock Creek Park, where zero units have opened since she unveiled her target two years ago to build 12,000 affordable homes citywide by 2025.

From geolocation issues, poor odds, and a user unfriendly interface, GambetDC squandered its opportunity to capture the market.

During some of the most fraught months of 2020, there was many a desperate knock on the doors of local job centers like Skyland Workforce Center in D.C. and WorkSource Montgomery in Germantown.

The coronavirus pandemic brought into sharp focus the glaring public health inequities we face in D.C. and how we might better address them going forward.

In an area where three young people have been hit by cars since October, the D.C. Department of Transportation (DDOT) on Thursday announced what it has done and what it plans to do to make the area safer.

Like other jurisdictions across the country, the District redraws its political maps every 10 years to keep up with changes in population that are captured by the Census. On Dec. 21, the DC Council will wrap up the first step of this…

The mandates follow an outbreak on the Georgetown University campus.

NEW YORK (AP) — The federal agency overseeing the lease of the luxury hotel that Donald Trump’s family company runs in the nation’s capital failed to carry out its basic responsibilities because it never tracked the millions of dollars…

The recent collisions involving children are part of a deadly rise in crashes on city streets

The District Department of Transportation says it’s narrowing Wheeler Road Southeast after a series of traffic crashes on the road in Ward 8, including one last week that left a 9-year-old in critical condition.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Thursday announced several new initiatives to build nearly 2,000 new units of affordable housing west of Rock Creek Park, an area that contains some of the District’s wealthiest neighborhoods — but where…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is announcing a new idea to reach her goal of 36,000 affordable housing units by 2025: She’s asking faith-based organizations to live up to their mission and use part of their land for affordable housing…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Thursday unveiled her plans to build almost 2,000 units of affordable housing in neighborhoods west of Rock Creek Park, the city’s wealthiest and whitest area — and the one with the smallest current stock of…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is pitching several new programs and initiatives, including one originally drafted by one of her rivals in the 2022 primary, in a push to finally spur new housing construction west of Rock Creek Park.

The Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad (BCCRS) in Montgomery County, Maryland, will be ending its ambulance service to upper Northwest D.C. by the end of this year.

Politics and Prose, the bustling independent bookstore located on Connecticut Avenue in Northwest D.C., sells dozens of books about elections and election integrity. The store bills itself as the capital’s cultural hub, where it hosts…

After years of speculation, confirmation has come that housing will be built on a key public site in Ward 3.