Today’s Silver Line was on the early back-of-the-napkin sketches for the Metrorail system when it was being developed in the mid-1960s. But the idea for a line that stretched as far as Dulles ...

The D.C. Council’s transportation committee wants to buy a condemned and dilapidated relic of D.C.’s street car network — Georgetown’s trolley trestle bridge — and turn it into a multi-use trail.

The 85th Academy Awards last Sunday concluded with a big surprise when Michelle Obama appeared via satellite to present the prize for Best Picture. And as exciting as it was to see the first lady ...

On Tuesday, amid the morning traffic of Metrobuses and a small crowd of bystanders, D.C. officials unveiled a new mural celebrating go-go on a corner in Shaw, where a battle once brewed over D.C.’s ...

Earlier this month, the D.C. Council cast its first of two votes on an omnibus public safety bill with about 100 provisions. The bill, called “Secure DC,” is a combination of provisions from a dozen ...

The outcome in the U.S. Senate last week couldn’t have been more clear: 81 senators, 33 of them Democrats, voted to block a D.C. bill that revised and modernized the city’s century-old criminal laws.

Walking through the steep, narrow servant staircases of Riversdale House, it’s hard not to be struck by how separated you are from the dramatic halls, dining room, and parlors in the rest of the ...

In forests in the eastern U.S., it can be easy to miss the fact that things are going awry. Elsewhere, in places like the Rocky Mountains or the Sierra Nevada, the signs may be more obvious: a whole ...

Late this year, Metro’s board will decide whether to embark on its biggest rail expansion since the Silver Line. Metro has long been studying solutions to capacity issues in the Rosslyn Tunnel under ...

Three individuals appointed by the mayor (and not directly accountable to voters) could stand in the way of the city meeting its climate goals, or they could push the District to take aggressive ...

In March 2022, 16-year-old Kevin Mason stood with his friends in front of the Big Chair in Anacostia, being interviewed about his dreams for young people in the city where he lived. “What I’m thinking ...

D.C. has been called lots of things, but “District of Crime?” That’s the moniker Fox News recently used for D.C. in a recent segment on a sweeping overhaul of the city’s criminal code passed by the ...