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Police said suspects often are back on a train or bus — or at a rail station or bus stop — soon after an arrest.

D.C.’s ban on evictions will end this fall as lawmakers have agreed to start phasing out some Covid-inspired emergency regulations that have been in place for close to a year and a half.

As D.C. emerges from a year and a half of pandemic-induced lockdown, lawmakers unanimously approved emergency legislation Tuesday that will gradually phase out tenant protections.

The D.C. Council adopted a plan on Tuesday to gradually put an end to a slew of protections that have shielded residents during the coronavirus pandemic, including prohibitions that kept landlords from raising rents and evicting tenants.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday voted to temporarily keep in place protections against debt collection, evictions and utility shutoffs that were instituted during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A move to rename West Education Campus after civil rights legend John Lewis has begun in the D.C. Council.

Metro says the number of sex offenses committed on trains and buses has doubled during the pandemic, and transit officials are now seeking ways to curb repeat offenders by temporarily banning them from the system.

The Metropolitan Police Department would be required to create a publicly accessible database of officer disciplinary and training records under a new bill introduced by D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson this week.

The median home price in the District reached $700,000 in June.

At a time when many employers are facing labor shortages in the post-Covid economy, adult education schools such as Carlos Rosario International Public Charter School are becoming instrumental in helping train an often underemployed…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser wants to rename an elementary school in Petworth after John Lewis, the late congressman and civil rights leader who passed away last year.

The vision for a future Southeast D.C. hospital is coming into focus.

Let’s look at the data, shall we…

Mayor Muriel Bowser last week released the next five-year phase of her plan to end homelessness entirely in the District by 2025. Coming at the tail end of a pandemic that derailed Bowser’s initial goal of reducing overall homeless by 65%…

DC's South Capitol Street pipeline is expanding.

The University of Utah is trading rented intern apartments for owned space with the purchase of property near Dupont Circle.

Metro trains will be single-tracking on the Red Line between Dupont Circle and Van Ness stations starting Saturday through Aug. 29. Crews will be working on the tunnel ventilation system on the stretch in Northwest D.C., which will help…

As D.C. emerges from a year and a half of pandemic-induced lockdown, changes are likely coming to the city’s patchwork of safety net provisions that have protected vulnerable residents since the health crisis began.

After a competitive, monthslong search process, WAMU has hired Erika Pulley-Hayes to lead the station as its new general manager. Pulley-Hayes, president and CEO of Community Communications, Inc., an NPR affiliate in Orlando, Florida, will…

After a celebratory weekend in DC as the fencing around the U.S. Capitol came down, the appropriations bill that will determine emergency spending on security upgrades there is the subject of partisan bickering in the Senate.