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From the DC Circulator to Metrorail, DC has a lot of transportation options. But the District also has a number of lesser-known specialized transportation services that help specific groups get around. One of those is VetsRide, a free…

The new owner of a high-profile office building near the White House is moving on plans to rehabilitate it for residential use.

The restaurant industry initially signaled it wasn’t ready for a repeat of the Initiative 77 debate, but that could be changing.

Getting more D.C. residents in local jobs with paid training is the aim of several new grants announced by Mayor Muriel Bowser on Thursday afternoon.

Metro’s board gave preliminary approval Thursday for its budget that includes several fare discounts and increased train service — if the 7000-series trains are back on the tracks by the time the $2.2 billion budget goes into effect.

Several changes popular with Metro riders are on track to be implemented — or made permanent — this summer.

D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine (D) is endorsing Brian Schwalb, a longtime trial attorney and partner-in-charge of the Venable law firm’s office in the District, to become the city’s next chief legal officer.

The D.C. government has more than 500 job vacancies—and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is pushing to fill them at a virtual career fair next week.

Igor Slabykh has begun each day since the Russian invasion on Feb. 24 messaging his close friends in Ukraine. He keeps the questions short and simple.

Renee Perrier and her spouse, Karen Combs, had their first child in 2009. Perrier had carried the baby through pregnancy, so the law automatically considers her a parent. But the monthslong “home study” process required for Combs to become…

Residents and elected officials fear the housing authority won’t stay committed to its promised “build-first” strategy.

A DC retirement board has ruled that the death of a Metropolitan Police Department officer in the days after the Jan. 6 insurrection occurred in the line of duty and that his widow is entitled to his full pension.

Six months ago, Federal Realty presented preliminary plans to redevelop the firm's Friendship Center building in Friendship Heights. Now, the public is getting a more detailed look at what will be proposed.

The mask mandate for D.C. public schools could end as early as next week, Mayor Muriel Bowser told Axios yesterday, a day after the city’s health department scrapped a masking requirement for all schools and childcare facilities.

A federal planning commission recently unveiled three concepts up for public review beginning this month

District officials inked a new four-year collective bargaining agreement with workers’ unions representing D.C. government employees on Wednesday.