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Metro board members Thursday took on the next looming challenge confronting them: How to head off a looming budget shortfall

Looking to navigate both short and long-term budget crunches, Metro’s board on Thursday heard a variety of fare and service concepts to help meet those budget gaps.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser made the commitment in 2015 to reduce traffic fatalities, but deaths have been trending up

Two sites have been selected for the National Museum of the American Latino and the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, pending legislative action from Congress. The Smithsonian’s Board of Regents narrowed their choices to two…

The Smithsonian has narrowed down sites for its next two museums in D.C.

The headlines and calls to action following the dramatic drop in test scores for D.C. students during the pandemic were clear: The city needs to do more to help students, especially Black and at-risk students, catch up to where they were…

Now the Smithsonian must get approval from Congress to proceed with the locations on the southwest portion of the Mall, land that is controlled by the National Park Service

D.C.’s Office of the Attorney General will investigate the proposed $20 billion merger between grocery chains Albertsons and Kroger, and attorneys general in the District and five states want Albertsons, the owner of Safeway, to postpone a…

When art collectors Mera and Don Rubell open their long-anticipated contemporary art museum in Southwest D.C. this week, the public will finally get to see the result of a $20 million renovation over a decade in the making.

On Nov. 8, D.C. residents will not only be voting on mayor, attorney general, and D.C. Council seats, but also the state board of education.

Like everyone who is stocking up on Halloween candy, the DC government is making preparations for Halloween weekend.

A week after the D.C. Council awarded multibillion-dollar contracts for insuring D.C.’s Medicaid patients to three insurers, seeming to finally end a years-long struggle to right the city’s Medicaid system after court and council fights,…

The owner of the historic Blues Alley jazz club in Georgetown said he hopes to reopen for business early next week, after his venue shut down Tuesday evening when smoke poured from the top of the building.

At the start of the year, crime spiked in the District.

A new report from two labor groups says that many bars and restaurants in D.C. are failing to report required data on how much tipped workers are being paid, but an association representing the hospitality industry says that any such…

On Nov. 8, D.C. voters will head to the polls to decide several important races, including a tightly contested race for two at-large seats on the D.C. Council and a high-profile ballot initiative on the tipped minimum wage.

Voters will elect two at-large D.C. Council members to represent the entire city in the highly competitive Nov. 8 election.

An unprecedented trial began this week at D.C.’s federal courthouse, where two D.C. police officers face a combination of second-degree murder, obstruction, and conspiracy charges related to the death of 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown.…

Following a history lesson, defense attorney Michael Hannon claimed officers were obligated to stop Hylton-Brown.

DC tourism officials are proposing a temporary hike in the hotel tax to fund more vigorous marketing campaigns — a step they say is necessary in the face of similar initiatives from other travel destinations that have more successfully…