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A few short weeks ago it seemed likely that we would get late-night Metro hours back, but the transit agency isn’t losing that maintenance time without a fight: the WMATA board will consider a proposal on Thursday for two alternative Metro…

The partial federal government shutdown is now in its 32nd day, and some 800,000 federal employees are three days from missing a second paycheck.

It's hard to imagine a time when expensive rents in DC came in at about $60 a month and the banks along the Potomac River in Georgetown were some of the more affordable places to live in the city.

If the government shutdown continues through Feb. 15, it could cost the District more than $85 million in lost tax revenue, according to a new report from D.C.’s chief financial officer.

The D.C. Council voted unanimously to protect federal workers from creditors and landlords as the partial government shutdown passes the month mark.

“We’re only now becoming facile in the language of trauma,” said DC Attorney General Karl Racine, who is heartened by the District’s progress. “This is an opportunity to throw a Marshall Plan out there.”

Good Wednesday morning. If the partial shutdown lasts two months into Feb. 15, DC is expected to lose $85 million in revenue, according to a new analysis from the chief financial officer released last night. Say the government doesn’t…

A D.C. real estate company is taking the first steps to revamp The Shops at 2000 Penn into a modern market with a new entrance on 21st Street and handfuls of new vendors.

In the District, dodging fares on the Metro system is shortly expected to be downgraded to a civil offense carrying a potential fine of up to $50 from a criminal act with a $300 maximum penalty and up to 10 days in jail. A supermajority of…

WASHINGTON — D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser says she will introduce emergency legislation that she says would allow federal employees who live in D.C. and who have been working without pay during the partial government shutdown to file for…

On June 1, 2017, President Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, and we became one of only two countries (along with Syria) not signed onto the accord. Four days later, on June 5, I stood…

City officials in the nation’s capital took steps Tuesday to expand the safety net for unpaid federal employees and contractors who are struggling to make ends meet as the partial government shutdown stretches into a second month.

D.C. councilmembers on Tuesday gave a sharp rebuke of Mayor Muriel Bowser's argument that "lawlessness begets lawlessness" on the District's transit system.