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What if the District gave its residents $100 per month on a SmarTrip card to pay for public transit on Metro?

As Washington continues to experience weather in the upper 50s, a complete lack of snowfall, and the warmest January ever recorded, it seems that any hopes of a real winter are long gone. In fact, spring leaf out (one of the early…

Good Monday morning. The DC Council will take up a proposal to give residents a taste of free public transit, by way of $100 loaded every month on SmarTrip cards. It's a major new bill from Charles Allen, who has the support of six other…

D.C.’s chief financial officer warned Friday the spread of the coronavirus could have a “considerable” impact on the District’s revenue.

The 10-year-old stood on a toilet to peer out the top-floor window of the towering house in Northwest Washington, her eyes riveted on the mayhem below. Rioters had already flipped a car and set it ablaze across the street, and Georgette…

Luxury fashion, accessory and beauty product retailer Chanel Inc. will open a store at the Conrad Washington D.C., according to a D.C. building permit issued this week.

With less than three weeks to go until the National Cherry Blossom Festival, organizers say preparations are on track, and that they’re not deterred by concerns about the novel coronavirus disrupting travel and the economy.

The union representing more than 10,000 Safeway grocery store workers is moving closer to a strike that could disrupt operations at 116 D.C.-area locations, union representatives said Friday, as a disagreement with the company’s private…

Many gathered at the intersection of New York Avenue and Bladensburg Road in Northeast D.C. to remember Relisha Rudd; the 6-year-old who disappeared exactly six years ago.

The District could become the next U.S. city to make transit free under a proposal by a D.C. Council member that would give each resident $100 a month to use for public transportation.

Due to outbreak of the novel coronavirus, D.C.’s travel and tourism industry is expected to feel the pinch from travel reductions.

Last week, a bill was passed to make the native D.C. genre the official sound of the city. But does that actually help preserve and advance the genre’s place in D.C.?

Beginning today, Feb. 29, having your vehicle in one of DC’s bike lanes could cost you.

“SUCH A waste.” That remark was part of the running commentary on a video documenting the deteriorated building conditions at a D.C. public high school that closed seven years ago. It was a reference to the school’s peeling paint, the…

The number of homicides committed in the District with untraceable, home-built “ghost guns” has risen to four, D.C. authorities said Friday as they proposed new legislation to prohibit kits used to make these new types of firearms.

Officials in D.C. grappling with an increase in homicides unveiled emergency legislation aimed at a new threat: so-called “ghost guns.” Ghost guns are home-assembled firearms, often built from kits easily purchased online, and they’re…

Amid a surge in recoveries of so-called ghost guns comes a call for emergency legislation to deal with them in D.C.

After a false start last summer, a plan to use tax dollars to finance Anacostia’s Reunion Square redevelopment is set to move forward.

As Metro considers cutting or consolidating more than 50 bus routes across the region, some riders in D.C. are worried about how they’ll commute to work, travel to the doctor, or go to the grocery store in the absence of bus lines they…

The COVID-19 coronavirus might have drastic, long-term effects on Greater Washington's tourism industry, which relies heavily on Chinese travelers.