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On July 1, D.C.’s long-awaited paid family leave law will take effect, giving hundreds of thousands of private-sector workers in the city up to eight weeks of paid time off to care for a newborn child, six weeks to attend to a sick family…

The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club voted unanimously Monday night to urge D.C. Council member Brandon Todd (D-Ward 4) and members of the Council committee he chairs to hold a hearing on a bill calling for anti-discrimination protections…

The District is proposing transferring management of Duke Ellington Field in Georgetown from D.C. Public Schools to the D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation.

Washington, D.C.'s fire department says it is investigating after a photo circulating on social media shows recruits displaying a hand gesture that can be associated with white supremacy.

About a dozen former inmates sat around a meeting room table in Ward 1 last week, expecting a city official to tell them about programs to help them reenter society now that they have been released from jail or prison. But Lamont Carey…

The transit authority’s latest data shows steady passenger growth after years of decline.

Community advocates have been helping the dozens of residents living in the K Street NE underpass move.

A building collapsed at the corner of Florida Avenue and Staples Street NE at around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, narrowly missing two pedestrians crossing the latter street as bricks cascaded into the street.

Security camera footage captured the collapse of a two-story building in the District’s Trinidad neighborhood Wednesday, moments after two people crossed a nearby street and a firetruck returning from a call pulled up.

After a decade of steady ridership decline and service problems, including waning reliability and a fatal smoke accident in 2015, there appears to be some reason for optimism at Metro.

On National Bagel Day, buzzy bagel purveyor Call Your Mother emerged victorious from a months-long struggle over its forthcoming location in Georgetown, clearing the way for an opening by the end of the month.

It’s a scene straight off a Hollywood stunt lot: in the middle of a sunny January afternoon, a building comes down like an avalanche as pedestrians scuttle through a crosswalk.

Howard University has received an African American art collection valued at more than $2.5 million.

A new 10-story parking garage planned as part of Union Station's redevelopment effort has come under fire from city officials and developers.

Marcus Goodwin on Wednesday joined the crowded race for an at-large seat on the D.C. Council, the latest entrant in a wide-open competition to join an increasingly liberal body.

Arrest made in row house fire: Happy Wednesday. The owner of a row house on Kennedy Street NW that burned down in August, killing two occupants, has been charged with murder. He was renting the property without a license — and the District…

One of D.C.'s most expensive homes is off the market, finally.

The owner of an illegal Brightwood rental where a fatal fire killed two people—one of whom was a nine-year-old boy—in August has been indicted on charges of murder.

News broke about a potential Georgetown location for the line-compelling DC bagel shop Call Your Mother more than six months ago, and the ensuing road to approval for the new location has been an uphill one.

In heavily Democratic D.C., the “R” label on a ballot has long been a difficult political sell. But Republican Katherine Venice, who is throwing her hat in the ring for Jack Evans’ Ward 2 seat on the D.C. Council, argues its time for “a…