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Uber will begin mapping the streets of the District Friday in advance of testing its self-driving cars here sometime in 2020.

Fast food chains aren’t known for their distinctive interiors; rather, a certain bland predictability means one outpost looks and feels pretty much the same as every other.

D.C. Council member Vincent C. Gray (D-Ward 7), who provided a key vote in favor of the District’s $215 million lottery and sports betting contract, received campaign help this week from a Maryland businessman at the center of a…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, with about 300 volunteers and other city officials, have conducted the annual head count of homeless people in the District, but the results won’t be available until May.

As suspected hate crimes soared in the District in recent years, worried activists repeatedly turned to federal prosecutors for information about cases, but received little.

District transportation officials have dropped a years-long plan to extend the city’s streetcar line between Union Station and Georgetown via downtown, saying they will instead build dedicated bus lanes on K Street NW.

Metro was consistently calling an outdated number for 911 in D.C., and at peak times, emergency calls from the transit agency were put on hold.

Uber is bringing self-driving cars to the streets of D.C. starting Friday, but the vehicles won’t be driving themselves, and they won’t be picking up passengers either.

Thousands of people appear to be using shared dockless scooters or bikes in place of Capital Bikeshare, posing a challenge to the publicly-owned system that remains popular with regular users.

Kendric Washington was in his sophomore year of high school when he saw his first sign spinner. Or at least, his first real sign spinner—someone who didn’t stand placidly in place twirling a sign around, but injected a kind of athleticism…

Four days after apologizing for altering a photo of the 2017 Women’s March, the National Archives replaced it with an unaltered copy of the original, according to an announcement on the agency’s website Wednesday.

It was 30 degrees on Wednesday night and David Putney said it was one of his best evenings in a long time.

A new report by an environmental watchdog group finds more drinking water systems around the country than previously believed are contaminated by what the group characterizes as high levels of “forever chemicals,” which aren’t broken-down…

Uber will start scanning and mapping District roads Friday in preparation for testing self-driving cars here later this year, the company said Thursday.

The Obamas are going on tour—at least, their likenesses are. The National Portrait Gallery announced Thursday that the official portraits of the former president and first lady that hang in the National Portrait Gallery will visit five…

An alternative school that educates some of D.C.’s most challenged students will close at the end of the school year, school officials announced Thursday.

Heavy timber hasn’t been used as a major new office building construction material in D.C. for a century, but a shiny glass and brick office building at Capitol Riverfront will get two additional stories constructed of…

The new institution will make the wide-reaching field accessible to the public.

D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Lewis D. Ferebee announced Thursday that Washington Metropolitan Opportunity Academy will close at the end of the academic year — the first campus the city has closed in the traditional public school system…

Federal authorities are investigating the conduct and oversight of a firearms analyst for the District's Department of Forensic Sciences, an agency that has come under scrutiny in two other instances for problems with its handling of crime…