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Repairs on Metro’s Red Line scheduled to start in July will involve round-the-clock single tracking and station closures that the transit agency said are expected to cause “significant impacts” for customers.

Veteran community activist to take new job workplace bias consultant

A proposal for a new tax on soda and other sugary drinks is off the table.

Hair a mess, clothes dirty, Len Williams felt seen.

Improving tunnel ventilation stems from a National Transportation Safety Board order in response to a smoke emergency at L’Enfant Plaza six years ago

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) wants the city to spend less money on police and nearly triple spending for an office dedicated to alternative justice programs and violence interruption, reflecting in part a push to address crime as a…

The National Park Service will hold a virtual public meeting next month to hear from the public on the future management of the part of Beach Drive that goes from Broad Branch Road Northwest to the Maryland border.

A bill that would bring a new soda tax to D.C. is officially dead.

Overall, 64% adults in the U.S. have had at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, according CDC data. In D.C., 58% of all residents are partially or fully vaccinated. But the nation’s leading infectious diseases expert wants more.

Local nightlife and music venue owners says they're expecting packed houses this weekend.

After hosting an all-virtual event last summer, the Library of Congress is bringing its annual National Book Festival back with a mix of virtual and in-person events.

The Park Service said it will continue to limit daily traffic on the road at least into the fall.

The bucolic park that stretches out behind Lafayette Elementary School is a popular destination for families, with its playground, spray park and newly renovated rec center serving the largely white Chevy Chase neighborhood around it.

Defending itself against allegations of “fraudulent behavior” that led to the loss of its accreditation, D.C.’s embattled crime lab said it never deliberately concealed any information from its accrediting board.

For more than a decade, an annual art show has worked to expand the creative network in a part of the city that doesn’t always get credit for its fine arts tradition.

In 2019, the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development (DMPED) announced that the Old Engine Company 22 firehouse along Georgia Avenue in Brightwood would be offered as a development opportunity. While a team engaged…

DC’s historic preservation system is well set up to preserve historic buildings and properties, but ill prepared to formally recognize other types of history. A simple reform could go a long way to resolve that.

When injustices occur in criminal cases, our institutions — prosecutors, police departments, crime laboratories — often treat it as a “bad apple” problem. Institutions blame the individual and fail to look within the institution for the…