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Good news for commuters who use Interstate 295. D.C. has scaled back the boundaries of a speed reduction zone, where photo enforcement cameras issued thousands of tickets to drivers exceeding the 40 mph limit.

More than 1,000 low-income D.C. residents will receive free or discounted SmarTrip cards as part of a pilot program to eliminate the cost of transportation as an impediment to jobs, services and recreational opportunities, officials…

Several universities in the Washington region have taken the rare step of suspending study abroad programs in Hong Kong after clashes between pro-democracy protesters and police escalated last month.

D.C. is looking into how to create more equity on Metro. By paying some riders’ fares and not paying for others, the new study aims to examine whether subsidies would change how low-income riders use the transit system.

"I can't help but think that this is, at least in part, about revenue generation," said Ward 3 councilmember, Mary Cheh – who also oversees the Committee on Transportation and the Environment.

In many cities, new buildings have to achieve a certain level of energy efficiency. Late last year, D.C. became the first to pass a law requiring efficiency upgrades to old buildings as well. The city is working on one piece of that law…

Nearly three weeks ago, a 15-year-old girl named Genesis Lemus was hurt in a confrontation with police officers as she sold plantain chips and atole de elote on a Columbia Heights sidewalk with her younger brother nearby. The incident was…

It’s a mild Sunday afternoon in December, and Steven M. Cummings is relaxing in his converted carriage house in a back alley off H and 8th Streets NE. The cozy space has a loft, self-made art on the brick walls, and a ton of cameras he’s…

ON THE POST’S editorial page, perhaps no writer on state and local topics has spilled more ink, or commanded greater expertise, than Robert L. Asher, who died Friday at age 83. “Some think I have power,” said Katharine Graham, The Post’s…

News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton December 9, 2019 Contact: Jack Miller WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced she has introduced a bill to establish a grant program from existing…

There might be some temporary relief on the horizon for the District’s most vulnerable residents who take public transportation, as the Metro board mulls over a proposal to cut fares or provide free transit.

Metro will consider a larger rush-hour fare hike next summer, as well as the elimination of some popular bus routes.

Happy Monday. Here’s a buzzkill: A firm contracted to study whether a bill to split up the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs would improve building code enforcement doesn’t have an answer.

Robert L. Asher, a journalist who spent decades at The Washington Post writing editorials on issues of local and regional importance such as traffic congestion, the operation, construction and financing of the Metro rapid transit system,…

Embattled D.C. Council Member Jack Evans could be expelled from his seat on the council as soon as next week, and now the District’s Democratic Party is telling Evans “it’s time to move on” from his role there, too.

Jubilee Housing Inc. is buying up more property in Adams Morgan, with plans to convert a church into temporary housing for formerly incarcerated people.

In recent months, DC's Office of Planning has hosted a series of open houses on proposed updates to the Comprehensive Plan in DC's eight wards. Immediately following a meeting this weekend at Wilson High School in Ward 3, the city built…

“It’s a really upsetting feeling. I don’t want to go anywhere else.”

Hook Hall — the tavern and events space in D.C.’s Park View neighborhood between Columbia Heights and Petworth — has turned its backyard into a ski lodge for the winter.

In more than five decades as a broadcaster, WTOP’s Chris Core has spent most of his life talking on the radio, but next Friday’s “Core Values” commentary will be his last: Core is retiring.