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Metro has made “substantial progress” in addressing some of the more than two dozen safety issues identified in an audit of its rail operations center, the panel responsible for safety oversight said Tuesday.

We officially found out Tuesday that D.C. will be gaining a second area code. The beloved 202 will stick around, but, starting in late 2022, every new phone number in the District will get a 771 instead.

Two weeks into the school year, 6-year-old Ambrose I. Lane III has already become adept at remote learning. From his home in Southeast Washington, he can use a laptop to log into his D.C. public school’s virtual classroom and get to work. …

The D.C. Council has approved legislation that would further protect renters from eviction during the coronavirus pandemic.

A new Howard University teaching hospital is one step closer to being realized, despite the ethical entanglements of the man who garnered the deal.

Olivia Henderson was cajoling, dancing and yelling outside the Bald Eagle Recreation Center on Joliet Street in Southwest D.C. the other day.

A $225 million tax abatement for Howard University sailed through the D.C. Council Tuesday, a day after an ethics probe revealed how the university offered to create a job for a high-ranking city official even as it was seeking the…

The area code 202 is synonymous with D.C. — it’s been the District’s sole area code for more than 70 years. But come 2022, when new phone numbers are forecast to run out, there’ll be a new three-digit code in town.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday extended Mayor Muriel Bowser’s health emergency authority until the end of the year, more than six months after she first declared the emergency to deal with the coronavirus pandemic.

The D.C. Council will vote Tuesday on a package of sweeping road-safety measures aimed at cutting the growing number of traffic injuries and fatalities in the nation's capital.

A new report on the home flipping market shows that, in DC, both flips and profits are back on the rise.

When it comes to calls placed by Washingtonians, 771 is the new 202.

On the day in 1954 when the Supreme Court decided in Brown v. Board of Education that “separate but equal” schools were unconstitutional, it also ruled in Bolling v. Sharpe that segregated public schools in the District of Columbia denied…

Midnight was closing in, which meant it was almost time to flick off the lights at Capitol Lounge for the last time. Inside the 26-year-old bar, bartender Sam Everret got everyone’s attention Sunday night to deliver a requiem for the…

For more than seven decades, (202) has been D.C.’s sole area code. But by the end of 2022, the city will have a new one: (771).

The sounds of gunfire ringing through her Southeast D.C. neighborhood had always kept Neta Vaught away from firearms. To her, guns symbolized the violence that the mother of three worked so hard to shield her family from — the violence…

Edwina Williams, a retired police detective in her late 50s, thinks it’s downright ridiculous that D.C. isn’t a state.

The D.C. Council will vote Tuesday on a package of sweeping road-safety measures aimed at cutting the growing number of traffic injuries and fatalities in the nation's capital.

A former D.C. government administrator has been fined $2,500 by an ethics board for his involvement in legislating a multimillion dollar tax break for Howard University, where he had been seeking employment.

D.C. ethics officials did not find any evidence that former City Administrator Rashad Young acted improperly in securing a new job at Howard University, they said in a public settlement released Monday. The District’s Board of Ethics and…