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Elected officials and residents have sought for years to remove the name of white supremacist Francis G. Newlands from a fountain in Chevy Chase Circle. Now, the effort is getting a high-profile endorsement from two U.S. senators.

Wiedefeld, 66, was hired in 2015 to stabilize the agency after a fatal smoke incident. He will retire in six months.

The District opened four new walk-in COVID-19 centers where residents can get vaccinated and tested on Tuesday, with four more planned to open across the city next week.

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s general manager and CEO, Paul Wiedefeld, notified the agency’s board on Tuesday of his plans to retire later this year.

D.C. opened four “COVID Centers” Tuesday, with a focus on getting more people vaccinated, boosted and tested, and four more centers are slated to open next week.

The bar and burger joint hinted on Twitter it would defy the rules.

Their unit's conditions are "appropriate and consistent with the federal prisoner detention standards," a monitor finds.

After more than six years leading the D.C. region’s transit agency — two during a pandemic — Metro General Manager and Chief Executive Officer Paul Wiedefeld is retiring.

It was another busy day at the public library when a visitor walked up and stood close to the children’s librarian.

Today, D.C. is opening four COVID Centers, where residents can get initial doses of a vaccine, a booster shot, at-home rapid test kits (like the ones currently being distributed at D.C. public libraries), and walk-up PCR testing.

Substitute teachers working for D.C. Public Schools are about to get heftier paychecks.

Grocery chain Wegmans will open two new D.C.-area stores this year, and it is now actively hiring for those locations, a total of 600 current openings.

With the family of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. using Monday's holiday honoring the civil rights leader to highlight the importance of voting rights, DC officials echoed their calls and highlighted the lack of DC autonomy as a similar…

The D.C. region’s Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo are shifting to a new schedule for the foreseeable future amid pandemic-related staffing limitations.

The District is prepared to enforce its new indoor vaccine mandate, officials said on the weekend the new rules took effect, but educating small businesses about the guidelines is the city’s first priority.

In recent weeks, the start of Aryssa Damron’s day as a children’s librarian at Capitol View Neighborhood Library in D.C.’s Ward 7 has changed.

D.C. Attorney General sues Express Homebuyers for allegedly sending over 100,000 District homeowners false notifications about overdue property taxes, risk of foreclosure, and misrepresenting the tax lien sale process to “drum up…

D.C.’s mayor is weighing in on the landmark voting rights bill that is expected to reach the Senate Tuesday.

Hundreds of people walked over the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge during Monday morning’s cold weather as part of the 16th annual Martin Luther King Peace Walk, joining descendants of Martin Luther King Jr. as they crossed over the…

Arts organizations across America are proudly celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The Choral Arts Society of Washington presents “Living the Dream … Singing the Dream.”