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There might be some temporary relief on the horizon for the District’s most vulnerable residents who take public transportation, as the Metro board mulls over a proposal to cut fares or provide free transit.

Metro will consider a larger rush-hour fare hike next summer, as well as the elimination of some popular bus routes.

Robert L. Asher, a journalist who spent decades at The Washington Post writing editorials on issues of local and regional importance such as traffic congestion, the operation, construction and financing of the Metro rapid transit system,…

Embattled D.C. Council Member Jack Evans could be expelled from his seat on the council as soon as next week, and now the District’s Democratic Party is telling Evans “it’s time to move on” from his role there, too.

Jubilee Housing Inc. is buying up more property in Adams Morgan, with plans to convert a church into temporary housing for formerly incarcerated people.

In recent months, DC's Office of Planning has hosted a series of open houses on proposed updates to the Comprehensive Plan in DC's eight wards. Immediately following a meeting this weekend at Wilson High School in Ward 3, the city built…

“It’s a really upsetting feeling. I don’t want to go anywhere else.”

Hook Hall — the tavern and events space in D.C.’s Park View neighborhood between Columbia Heights and Petworth — has turned its backyard into a ski lodge for the winter.

In more than five decades as a broadcaster, WTOP’s Chris Core has spent most of his life talking on the radio, but next Friday’s “Core Values” commentary will be his last: Core is retiring.

Jack Evans opened 2019 as the D.C. Council’s longest-tenured member and certainly one of its most powerful and influential, despite a waft of scandal that originated the year before.

The alliance of business and nonprofit groups that successfully lobbied for last year’s historic Metro funding agreement wants to use its clout to dramatically improve the Washington region’s bus system.

When the Rev. Brian J. Lee and his congregation began renting Grace Reformed Church in downtown Washington eight years ago, he knew the building’s storied past — that Theodore Roosevelt worshiped there during his years as vice president…

D.C. education officials are investigating special-education services at a charter school that serves more than 600 students in preschool through sixth grade.

Jaquan Greene buckled the scuba vest, adjusted his goggles and stuck the regulator — the device that delivered air from the gas tank strapped to his back — into his mouth.

One renter says the strike will continue "as long as it needs to"

Seven On Your Side has learned Advisory Neighborhood Commission 8E's finances have been frozen, as the city investigates suspicious transactions from the commission's bank account.

An ambitious plan to complete a network of nearly 900 miles of trails connecting the Washington region could be accomplished with an investment of just over $1 billion, according to a coalition of nonprofits, business and government…

Metro announced Friday that full cell service is now available through four major wireless carriers on the entirety of the Green Line.

Fourteen stairs. I count each as Erica Chance and I walk from the first to the second floor of her home in Northeast Washington. In my hands, I hold a notebook that weighs ounces. In her arms, she holds her 5-year-old son, Ayden, who…

Please keep Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans' ride your thoughts and prayers, D.C. The old girl isn't doing so well.