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The Metro board on Thursday overwhelmingly approved allowing the transit agency to charge higher fares during major events, but postponed a discussion on restoring late-night service.

THERE IS, to be sure, a serious conversation to be had over whether the District should welcome Washington’s football team back to its old home at the site of RFK Stadium. We have doubts about whether a stadium used so infrequently is the…

Meow what? Meow Wolf, baby. The big news in D.C. this week is that Meow Wolf is coming to the capital of khaki, to the District of dull, to the nation’s mecca of meh.

The Metro board on Thursday voted to charge riders peak fares for special events and agreed to hold a public hearing on expanding rush-hour service windows as part of General Manager Paul J. Wiedefeld’s proposed budget for the coming fiscal…

WASHINGTON — Metrorail riders may see targeted fare increases at certain times next year, but will not face across-the-board fare hikes, a series of votes Thursday by the Metro Board assured.

Last month, Chemonics International announced its plans to become an anchor office tenant at The Yards. Now, we are getting our first look at how the company's headquarters would fit into the evolving riverfront neighborhood.

An aerial gondola connecting Georgetown and Rosslyn has gathered more support since appearing to lose steam after Arlington County said nearly two years ago it would not contribute funds toward the project.

An advocacy group plans to appeal a court order that foiled its effort to hold a new election on a wages for tipped workers that had been approved by D.C. voters but overturned by the D.C. Council.

As far as official government reports go, this one might be a collector’s edition.

The balancing act between providing service to late-night riders and doing preventative maintenance is getting a deeper look after the D.C. members of the Metro board demanded a return to 3 a.m. weekend and midnight weeknight closures.

D.C. Public Schools are intentionally falling short of providing the required science and social studies instructional time in at least four middle schools, a violation of its own standards, a News4 I-Team investigation found.

While DC has traditionally hosted a large share of residents who moved here from across the country, there is the mistaken impression that it is a city of transplants rather than a place with a distinct culture where people have…

Here’s something most everybody living in D.C. already knows: This city looks very different today than it did in the relatively recent past. In the last 10 to 20 years, large numbers of newcomers have dramatically changed the landscape of…

Exactly one year and one day after former “Top Chef” star and restaurateur Mike Isabella opened a 41,000-square-foot multi-restaurant concept in the Tysons Galleria, he announced he is shutting down his entire company — once, one of the…

WASHINGTON — A plan for an aerial gondola connecting Georgetown with Rosslyn over the Potomac was first floated more than five years ago, and a feasibility study in 2016 seemed to give the idea some credibility.

Federal Judge Christopher Cooper had fun with this one. Cooper, of the U.S. District Court for D.C., issued a pun-filled ruling Wednesday on the case pitting J&J Sports Productions Inc. against Tesfit Kiflu, owner of D.C.’s Cloud…

A D.C. court has rejected an activist group's appeal of Foulger-Pratt's $200 million planned development near Union Market.

A group of elected D.C. neighborhood commissioners is asking campaign finance authorities to investigate allegations that D.C. Council Member Brandon T. Todd (D-Ward 4) used government resources to promote a school board candidate.

Earlier this year, UrbanTurf opined about the complexities of building an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) in DC and the lack of easy tools that can help determine whether a structure is feasible. Now, just such a feasibility tool has come to…

“I think people often forget or don’t recognize that urban areas are actually part of nature, too."