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The growth of bikeshare and electric scooter companies across D.C. has made getting around without a car so much easier — but it’s also meant finding dockless scooters and bikes strewed across streets and sidewalks.

In another setting — one far removed from poverty, the rattle of trains in and out of Union Station and the whoop of emergency vehicle sirens — Charles Leon Willie and Kara Chauncey’s tent in a District homeless encampment might be almost…

The effort to bring the show to the city has been five years in the making.

Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Friday she is nominating John Falcicchio to become her deputy mayor for planning and economic development on a permanent basis, after he spent the last six months holding the job in an interim capacity.

Raise your hand if you, too, have been personally victimized by a haphazardly parked dockless scooter.

Three incidents on Metro in the last 60 days led to the discovery that the transit agency was using a bad number to reach D.C. emergency dispatchers.

D.C. Council candidate Chander Jayaraman is now the first candidate in the at-large race to qualify for matching funds through the Fair Elections Program, receiving nearly $90,000.

A massive office complex in the heart of D.C.'s Central Business District is set to undergo a major renovation.

Just over two years after receiving zoning approval, ground has broken on an all-affordable development a block from DC's Audi Field.

The U.S. Attorney for D.C. has logged an increase in hate crime prosecutions after facing widespread criticism last year for a sharp drop in the amount of hate crime charges it was choosing to pursue, the Washington Post reports. On…

Uber will begin testing its self-driving vehicles in D.C. today.

In 2013, Adele Robey had a problem: She needed a theatre.

Developer Urban Investment Partners is engaged in two legal disputes over D.C. real estate projects, one with a broker and another with a subcontractor.

IT WOULD BE TRITE to force an Amazon metaphor onto the Washington Post in my first column just because they are both owned by the same rich guy. And for that reason, I will do it. The Washington Post is the media equivalent of Amazon’s…

Students walk out: The Bowser administration has decided to shut down a public school for the first time in seven years, confirming yesterday that Washington Metropolitan will close at the end of the year despite students’ protestations.