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Metro has selected its next general manager — Randy Clarke, who has led the transit system in Austin, Texas, since 2018 and previously worked at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in multiple roles.

Orange called Parker’s decision to come out “a matter of convenience.”

Randy Clarke, a public transit CEO from Austin, Texas, is WMATA’s new general manager. He will face a series of challenges getting the country’s second-largest transit agency back on track.

Randy Clarke will replace Paul J. Wiedefeld, who has served as top executive for six years and will retire this summer

The D.C. health department has not shared data with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since April 27 on the number of new coronavirus cases in the District or on any deaths from the virus, as cases inch upward again elsewhere…

More than 100 journalists contributed to reporting on the Capitol insurrection that was honored by the Pulitzer Prize’s most prestigious award.

A new concert hall and coffeehouse is coming to downtown D.C., but under a familiar name: Penn Social.

The Council chairman’s proposed changes could make a difference for recently homeless families.

D.C. schools with a high percentage of low-income students would see a boost in funding under a proposal from D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson. The chairman announced his proposal ahead of a first vote on the city’s 2023 budget set for…

D.C. residents were understandably excited when megaproducer Pharrell Williams announced that he would be bringing some “happiness” to the District on Juneteenth by relocating Something in the Water, his major Virginia Beach music…

Last year, George Washington University’s Cloyd Heck Marvin Center — named for a segregationist — was renamed the University Student Center in response to student calls for a name change. The name change streamlined with calls for racial…

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) will establish another 70 branches in D.C., Maryland and Virginia by the end of 2025 as part of a sizable retail banking expansion in the region, where it also opened its long-planned Mid-Atlantic…

As gas prices climbed across the D.C. region in early March and more offices reopened, more people hopped on Metro trains and buses, according to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.

A new bill introduced in the D.C. Council would prohibit the city from cooperating in any investigation led by another state into anyone who gets, assists with, or performs an abortion in D.C.

With the DC Council scheduled to vote on next year's budget tomorrow, DC Council Chair Phil Mendelson has released his proposed version of the District's spending plan for fiscal year 2023.