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When Alice Carter died Wednesday after collapsing on a Northwest Washington street, there was no immediate outcry.

A review of an incident on Metro’s Red Line that left passengers trapped on one train for nearly an hour found human error and insufficient training was to blame.

My wife and I moved to the District 14 years ago searching for a walkable city with a robust public transportation system. Because my wife and I both were working downtown, we bought a condo near the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.…

The mystery of Jack Evans’ other potential car collision

D.C. Brau, the trailblazing beer company that brought craft beer manufacturing back to the District in 2011, has raised $614,355 in new funding, according to a Dec. 19 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

Metro trains will run until 2 a.m. for New Year’s Eve revelers celebrating the end of 2019 and the start of 2020.

Nearly a billion dollars in unpaid tickets are due to District taxpayers

TGIF! For more on the relationship between Jack Evans and EagleBank, read about a list of developers produced by the former head of the bank. Ronald Paul, EagleBank's CEO and chairman, gave Evans a six-page spreadsheet in September 2016…

I met Frazier O’Leary in 1998 when I was following one of his students at what was then known as Cardozo High School in the District. I was trying to figure out why the teen was doing so well. The answer in large part was O’Leary, her…

After years of court battles, activists are still fighting to preserve historic McMillan Park and block redevelopment as demolition looms.

The World Bank has operated out of 1776 G St. NW for more than 30 years. On Thursday, the international organization of 189 member nations bought it.

The District officially exceeded last year’s total murder count, with 161 reported homicides as of Friday.

In a civil lawsuit filed Tuesday, a group of four women allege that they were chased down and accosted by bouncers after refusing to prepay for their meal at Rewind By Decades, a late-night eatery beneath the retro-themed club Decades in…

On frigid Thursday night, a crowd marched down 14th Street toward Freedom Plaza. They were of mixed ages and lived experiences, including an elderly veteran in a U.S. Army hat, young men passing handwarmers between each other, a handful of…

"To have something like this happen, it’s like someone kicked me in the stomach."

For the first time in three years, traffic fatalities in D.C. are lower than they were the year before.

The Newseum is a period piece. During a recent visit, passing by its early satellite truck, its fragments of the Berlin Wall, its homages to legendary broadcasters and war correspondents, it was hard not to feel a twinge of nostalgia for…