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A bill that would provide District residents with $100 a month for D.C.’s Metro system and dedicate $10 million annually to improve bus and transit service is on its way to a vote in the full D.C. Council.

The ‘Metro for D.C.’ bill moved through the council’s transportation committee with unanimous approval

The AG is leaving office, but he isn’t doing so quietly, taking some last shots at Geoff Griffis on the way out the door.

Paulette Matthews, 63, watched discerningly on Monday as D.C. government officials celebrated the redevelopment of Barry Farm, the historically significant Southeast community where she lived for more than two decades before she was forced…

A D.C. Council committee on Monday advanced a bill that would give most D.C. residents up to $100 a month to be used for Metrorail and Metrobus, effectively making public transit free — or at least significantly cheaper — for many…

A corrections officer at the D.C. Jail was arrested and charged on Monday for allegedly taking bribes to smuggle drugs and other items to inmates at the facility.

A D.C. corrections officer and two other D.C. residents, one of them incarcerated, have been arrested and charged in connection with a scheme to smuggle prohibited drugs into the D.C. Jail.

The D.C. Department of Transportation has started assessing every bridge in the city to determine whether barriers should be added to prevent people from using the spans to end their lives.

German discount grocer Lidl will cut the ribbon on its Skyland Town Center store Sept. 27 with a grand opening Sept. 28. The store is Lidl’s first in D.C. and the first new grocery store in Ward 7 in more than a decade.

The Washington National Cathedral is still working on repairs following the region’s 2011 earthquake that caused nearly $40 million in damage to the iconic structure, but a fundraising effort is giving the project a financial boost.

The Bowser administration broke ground this afternoon at Ward 8's Barry Farm on a 108-unit building for older adults — the first on-site building being constructed as part of plans in the works for more than a decade to redevelop the…

On Friday, the Washington area’s transit system unveiled a new Metrorail map that showed the 11.5-mile Silver Line extension to Dulles International Airport and points farther west. The map and, more to the point, the extension’s imminent…

Washington National Cathedral marked its 115th birthday on Sunday with the announcement that $115 million has been raised to finish repairing damages caused by an earthquake 11 years ago and lay a firm financial foundation for its future. …

The ruling is part of an ongoing lawsuit filed by D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine in 2020 following allegations of sexual abuse of toddlers

A few weeks ago, a gunman involved in an altercation at L’Enfant Plaza Metro station fired a single shot on the Green and Yellow line platform. An innocent bystander was injured. Now, let’s extrapolate.

The map also includes new names for several stations and the coming Potomac Yard station in Alexandria

A weathered D.C. flag droops from its pole above the brick plaza out front of the Franklin D. Reeves Municipal Center at 14th and U Street in a late August swelter. A woman with bugged out eyes and missing teeth does pirouettes, laughs,…

The first days of school are finally feeling “back to normal” for English teacher Clare Berke.