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A former D.C. Public Schools employee and her friend, a business owner, pleaded guilty Monday to a federal mail-fraud charge stemming from a bid-rigging scheme, authorities announced.

A local Advisory Neighborhood Commission is planning a vote on Wednesday for a resolution to designate the block of New Hampshire Avenue NW where the Saudi Arabian embassy sits as “Jamal Khashoggi Way,” after the journalist who U.S.…

Metro will stay open until 2 a.m. for those party animals that stay up past midnight for New Year’s Eve celebrations.

For the latest in adventurous urban living, look no further than the proposed development in Washington’s Dupont Circle neighborhood, where a builder plans to offer tenants the rare opportunity to reside underground.

At some point soon, as early as this week, the Council will vote on legislation for an education research collaborative—an independent research body that will conduct studies on the city’s public schools. The idea is to better determine how…

The former Fannie Mae headquarters will be renamed City Ridge as it undergoes a transformation into a mixed-use urban village, anchored by Wegmans’ first D.C. store.

Multifamily construction has continued at a rapid pace in recent years as the D.C. region looks to house its growing population. With Amazon now planning to create 25,000 new jobs over the next decade, significant housing development will…

Rigorous research on public education systems can be revelatory: Knowledge that researchers generate through their study of school data can change education practices, policies and schools. But to do so, researchers must be able to hold an…

The votes have been counted, the election certified, the incumbents returning to their seats. So what’s going on in Ward 4?

Four times a day, each and every weekday, a choreographed dance of the streets happens across the District. A number of lanes of traffic, and in some cases entire roadways, change direction for the duration of rush hour.

The Greater Washington Partnership — a group of high-profile CEOs representing the Baltimore-Washington-Richmond corridor — is out with its long-bandied report on how to pull the three cities together into a powerful super region with an…

An alliance of the region’s top chief executives is urging ambitious, costly steps to improve commuter rail, bus networks and other transportation systems to reduce chronic traffic congestion and bind together the “super region” stretching…

The Anacostia River used to be a dumping ground for Washington’s trash, sewage and industrial waste. Now there’s a massive cleanup effort, and the city has declared 2018 “the year of the Anacostia.” But for D.C. musician Brent Peterson, the…

How much was a single vote worth in this month’s D.C. State Board of Education elections? Maybe $3? $5? Even $8?

From the Mall to Lincoln, Neb., planners across the United States are pushing slow-rolling roboshuttles as a way to dip their toes into greater automation.

WASHINGTON — Metro’s Yellow Line falls off the map for two weeks starting the Monday after Thanksgiving (Nov. 26) as the transit agency shuts down the bridge over the Potomac River for repairs.

The Little Free Library went up a week after the inauguration, its wooden walls painted to evoke the White House eight blocks away. But if the book box coincided with President Trump taking office, its tiny plaque pined for the previous…