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Trips on Uber and Lyft in and out of downtown D.C. could soon be a little more expensive.

The two freelance journalists alleged they were illegally arrested. As part of the $175,000 settlement, the city did not admit wrongdoing.

The nation’s capital has a wealth of art museums and galleries, but sometimes, you don’t have set foot in the building to see the art. In D.C.’s “Vacant to Visual,” works of art are created on the exterior of vacant buildings.

A federal judge ruled late last week that D.C.’s longstanding ban on high-capacity gun magazines is constitutional, saying that there’s no practical or historical reason that gun-owners in the city should need more than the 10 bullets per…

Lately D.C. has been on a tree-planting binge, planting more than 12 thousand new trees across the city in 2022. But all that frenetic shoveling and staking and watering is barely keeping pace with the loss of mature trees, many of which…

When M.K. arrived at the D.C. Jail around the start of 2022, his HIV was undetectable — meaning the virus was suppressed to the point where it couldn’t be transmitted to others. This was thanks to a decade of using the HIV medication…

Mel Amos inched toward the front of the line wrapped around the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in downtown D.C., steeling herself from the January chill in a puffy Washington Redskins jacket. Inside, she would find out if she was…

I was driving through a neighborhood in Southeast Washington where a 12-year-old girl was shot and wounded on Friday night. A few blocks away, seven adults had also been shot that night. But you’d never know it from the look of things.

Employees of the Wharf InterContinental Hotel in D.C., including staff of acclaimed Vietnamese restaurant Moon Rabbit, want to form a union, citing worries about their wages and working conditions.

Amid Mayor Muriel Bowser’s proposed reductions in spending on housing production – and a looming deadline to build 36,000 new units of housing across the city – Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau unveiled a slate of proposals Tuesday…

The agency says it doesn’t have the capacity to manage these improvements, despite well-documented needs.

The agency overseeing D.C.’s 911 dispatch system said it intends to look back at the response to the deadly car crash into the Anacostia River last week.

Climate activists marched to the White House on Earth Day, demanding that the nation’s capital wean itself off of “dangerous” fossil fuels.

While D.C. awards billions of dollars in contracts to businesses owned by women and people of color, researchers found that most of that money was unevenly concentrated

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s proposed fiscal 2024 budget includes plans for federal payments by Congress to support specific D.C. government agencies and programs, including the Court of Appeals, Superior Court and various court-related…

Michael Thomas’ 13-year-long case is emblematic of serious problems with D.C.’s police discipline system.

D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb joins 17 state attorneys general in asking the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to issue a recall of Kia and Hyundai models lacking anti-theft controls in a letter on Thursday.

The museum is tackling pervasive inequities in communities east of the river with its new Center for Environmental Justice, and Ward 8’s first FRESHFARM market.

In four decades, Greg Casten doesn’t remember feeling this excited and anxious at the same time.

Safety upgrades on the 2.5-mile roadway at East Potomac Park — a.k.a. Hains Point — are taking longer than expected.