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202 may be joined by a new number come 2022.

The Washington Metro’s SmarTrip card has officially launched on select Apple devices for touch-free payment, and the transit agency said SmarTrip on iPhone and Apple Watch is a first of its kind in North America.

Starting today, iPhones and other Apple devices can be used to pay all Metro fares, including on buses. Customers also can reload their SmarTrip accounts with Apple Pay and a new Metro mobile app, the transit agency announced Tuesday.

A Downtown DC Economy Update released by the Downtown Business Improvement District highlights the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect. It reports downtown D.C.’s daytime population has dropped from 225,000 in February to 22,000 as of July, a 90%…

The fragile ecology of arts is tenuous in good times, and now every arts organization is struggling for its very survival. Pitting arts groups and genres against one another is not helpful.

The District has had one single area code — 202 — for more than 70 years.

D.C. police have “intelligence to suggest” a van someone drove into a crowded intersection near one protest was at protests in Portland and Kenosha

MPD arrested the operator of a van for reckless driving during a Saturday protest. The van's driver said he was only trying to hand out free snacks to protesters.

The U.S. Attorney’s office is lashing out against comments from D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, who said federal prosecutors have been “reluctant” to pursue cases against violence in the midst of unrest over racial justice.

Mayor Muriel Bowser said Monday she worries about the country descending into a "race war" after violent acts were allegedly committed by some agitators toward D.C. police officers during several days of protests that became tense over the…

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Monday defended police using force to quell unrest in the District the past several nights and blamed the more recent clashes on “outside agitators” who she said came “armed for battle” and “looking for…

Hundreds of thousands of students in the District and Maryland powered on their laptops Monday for the start of a school year like no other.

Happy Monday. After a series of late-night skirmishes with protesters that led to multiple arrests and the use of chemical irritants, Mayor Muriel Bowser and Police Chief Peter Newsham blamed "outside agitators" for changing the tenor of…

For three months, local activists and residents have been out in D.C. streets demanding an end to police violence and racial injustice. They’ve marched all over the city; they’ve pulled down — and attempted to pull down — statues of…

For the last 20 years or more, downtown Washington has been riding a wave of prosperity.

The District of Columbia will join most U.S. states in applying for federal coronavirus aid that would give unemployed workers an additional $300 per week — a decision that Maryland and Virginia made weeks ago.

A new report shows just how much the pandemic has affected the downtown core's economy.

D.C.’s police chief and mayor claimed Monday that people traveling to the District with the specific intent to disrupt peaceful protests, damage property and behave aggressively toward police were part of an “organized, funded attempt to…