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How do you train to be a NASCAR driver when you don’t even have a driver’s license? Just ask 17-year-old Capitol Hill resident Rajah Caruth.

About 7.4% of teenagers in Washington, D.C.’s public and public charter high schools has exchanged sex for money, drugs or something else of value.

D.C. Council Member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), coping with the fallout from a federal investigation into his private dealings with companies affected by decisions of the District government, now faces a second challenger in his re-election…

And that has many people in the arts community on edge.

Propelled by the go-go triumph outside the Shaw Metro PCS store, the D.C. fixture is promoting a development project billed to save Anacostia.

Councilmembers lament that the mayor framed the issue around gentrification.

Drivers might see more cyclists than usual on the road on Friday. The weather appears to be cooperating for the D.C. area’s Bike to Work Day 2019.

D.C. regulators signal their concerns about effects on student athletes

A cellphone recording of a middle school student being beaten by another has prompted the principal of a D.C. school to send a letter to parents and families about what happened and how the school is responding.

Metro has temporarily stopped issuing citations in the District for fare evasion, eating in the transit system and other offenses because of a problem with the language in a new D.C. law that decriminalizes those violations, officials…

D.C. Council Member Brandon T. Todd (D-Ward 4) has been formally reprimanded by an ethics agency after admitting he violated the city’s code of conduct through his involvement last year in an education board election.

The city’s conventions and sports authority is seeing higher than expected costs to run the new Entertainment and Sports Arena at the St. Elizabeths campus in Ward 8.

Over a year ago, the DC Council held a marathon hearing in which more than 250 people signed up to testify about whether and how the Comprehensive (Comp) Plan, a high-level guideline for how and where the city should develop, should be…

Even if today’s objectively beautiful weather doesn’t stick around by the end of the week, D.C.’s cyclists will Spandex up and hit the bike lanes on Friday for another Bike to Work Day. Commuter Connections and the Washington Area…

Ward 4 Councilmember Brandon Todd has a checkered history when it comes to election laws.

Advocates say the District's federally controlled parole system needs reform.

Happy Wednesday. The legal battle over a former Sanford Capital property in Congress Heights continued in court today.