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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…

Metro was consistently calling an outdated number for 911 in D.C., and at peak times, emergency calls from the transit agency were put on hold.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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Lillie Tucker, a tenant of The Vistas Apartments in Ward 8, went on a rent strike in January to finally get repairs to her apartment. A maintenance worker fixed the bottom lock on her front door, the…

The District’s transportation department is officially scrapping plans to build a streetcar line westward across the city and into Georgetown.

D.C. officials and volunteers have conducted the first census of the city’s homeless population since clearing an encampment in the NoMa neighborhood earlier this month.

Last summer, the DC Black Business Task Force called for a study to determine whether the government has been meeting its goals regarding awarding contracts to Black-, minority- and women-owned…

In their appeal to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) for an expansion of anti-violence resources, a collective of youth from city public and public charter schools have relied on their experiences and…