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Metro’s proposed sweeping budget cuts in the face of the ongoing pandemic will leave the rail and bus system operating vastly different than ever before. The proposal includes no weekend train service, closing the system at 9 p.m. with…

Bladensburg, Maryland-based Bates Trucking Company has paid almost $79,000 to settle a complaint by the D.C. Office of the Attorney General that it violated the District’s noise restrictions by picking up trash too early in the morning and…

Transit officials need to fill a nearly $500 million funding shortfall.

A new D.C. program lets landlords apply directly for $10 million in government grants to cover tenants’ missed rent payments during the coronavirus pandemic.

Samuel George, a 36-year-old filmmaker who’s originally from Philadelphia, has an unlikely connection to go-go music.

The D.C. Council gave initial approval Tuesday to bills aimed at correcting historical injustices — including renaming a recreation center and park to honor a man born into slavery, whose descendants owned land appropriated for the park,…

Fittingly, the shelter has named the babies Rehoboth, Lewes, and Bethany.

Another small residential project is in the works on one of Georgetown's main corridors.

Audrick Payne has been voicing his concerns about the DCRA for two decades. Now, as he awaits a kidney transplant, he says the agency wants to let him go.

After more than three decades as one of the District’s key organizations serving the poor and hungry, the D.C. Central Kitchen is planning a relocation that will revamp the nonprofit’s ability to serve the region’s most needy.

Ana Reyes was 5 when she immigrated to America, and when she started school, she couldn’t speak or read a word of English. She began slipping behind in class.

Happy Monday. With just one month left in the DC Council's two-year term, the rush is on to act on dozens of bills that would otherwise die at the end of the year. Though the returning lawmakers would have the option of reintroducing their…

With sharply reduced ridership and lacking fresh federal relief, Metro is proposing a new operating budget with a nearly $500 million deficit.

HERE’S WHAT happens to D.C.’s Metro system if Congress remains inert on a new pandemic relief package: the death of transit as we know it.

Come next summer, Metro may be operating at “bare bones” service levels with just two-thirds of its staff.

Metro’s budget projection for its next fiscal year is the grimmest in its 50-year history.