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The District would become the nation’s largest city to offer free transit under a new D.C. Council proposal

The D.C. Council wants to make WMATA bus service fare-free in the District next year. If approved, D.C. would become one of the largest and most prominent cities in the country to make the bus free at the fare box.

DC is poised to offer fare-free Metrobus service as soon as July if the DC Council approves proposed legislation next week.

On Wednesday, members of a D.C. Council committee tasked with overseeing the city’s housing authority questioned the agency’s plans to lean on turnaround consultants to fix issues identified by federal housing officials.

D.C. Housing Authority officials faced more than three hours of questions and criticism from lawmakers on Wednesday, much of which was focused on whether, how, and how quickly the troubled agency will be able to address dozens of…

Brigitte Macron also visited the famed performing arts school in 2018

One line of the song, which addresses a D.C. lawmaker by name, tells of vendors wanting to work without racist laws and police abuse

Reyna Sosa has been street vending in the heart of Columbia Heights for about a decade. Almost every day, she sells antojitos – snacks in the form of pieces of mango and watermelon, taquitos, yuca with chicharron, and many flavors of the…

The Washington Post will stop publishing its Sunday print magazine after more than three decades. The last issue will be out on Dec. 25.

Jonathan Binstock, who has ties to both the commercial and academic art world, will be the D.C. museum’s seventh leader

In a closed session, DCHA commissioners discussed Brenda Donald’s icy relationship with the internal auditor as Donald released the agency’s response to HUD’s damning audit.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Staffers at Bread for the City, a venerable charity in the nation’s capital, thought they were prepared for this year’s annual pre-Thanksgiving Holiday Helpers food giveaway. The pandemic had faded, but inflation was…

DC Attorney General Karl Racine's office filed an amended complaint this week in its lawsuit against local nonprofit Casa Ruby and its founder, Ruby Corado.

In early December, work on plans to have a dedicated bicycle and pedestrian lane will begin in East Potomac Park in D.C.

The D.C. Housing Authority says it is undergoing an “urgent transformation” to address a “multitude of inherited problems” with how it manages the city’s stock of public housing, and will soon launch a citywide blitz to inspect and repair…

Whitman-Walker Health, the D.C. provider that focuses on caring for members of the LGTBQ+ community, no longer requires visitors and staff to wear masks — a move that unsettled some patients who say the new policy endangers at-risk…

A popular recreation area in D.C. is getting a new traffic configuration.

The National Park Service said it would replace one of the lanes for vehicles on Ohio Drive at Hains Point

The Arlington County Commonwealth’s Attorney on Tuesday dropped an assault charge against Chris Geldart, the former D.C. deputy mayor for public safety who resigned in October amid the charge and questions about his residency.