Matt Connolly

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

The nation's fastest-growing cities may be in the Sun Belt, but the District and nearby Alexandria and Gaithersburg are gaining residents at a blistering pace, according to census data released Thursday. D.C.'s population grew by 5.1 percent to 632,323 from 2010 to 2012, according to the...

Kytja Weir

Updated: 14 hr ago

Capital Bikeshare has shiny red bikes on street corners all over the region, with plans to expand. But surprisingly, those cherry red numbers haven't been stolen very often. Only 15 bikes have gone missing out of the 1,900 bikes ordered for the bikesharing service since it began in fall 2010,...

Alan Blinder and Eric P. Newcomer

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

The D.C. Council, setting aside its members' annual frustrations about a public budget fashioned in private, voted unanimously on Wednesday to support a $10 billion plan that would increase Circulator bus fares, end the city's tax on certain bonds and earmark a potential spigot of Internet sales...

Kytja Weir

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

Metro riders had a surprising scare Wednesday morning when the public address system told riders to evacuate the station. Turns out there was no emergency, said Metro spokeswoman Morgan Dye. The announcement ran by mistake just after 10 a.m. at the station that serves the Orange and Blue...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

Road closures due to a large sinkhole in downtown D.C. could last beyond Wednesday's evening commute, officials said. The sinkhole started developing Tuesday afternoon because a water line broke. F Street NW is closed between 13th and 15th streets, and 14th Street NW is closed between...

Eric P. Newcomer

Updated: 20 hr ago

As the House weighs legislation that would halt the controversial Frank Gehry plan for the Eisenhower Memorial, the chairman of the subcommittee with oversight over the project has requested documents showing how $63 million Congress already committed to the project has been spent. Rep. Rob...

Matt Connolly

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

D.C. public schools spent $18,475 per student in fiscal 2011, more than any state outside of New York, according to census data released Tuesday. Among the country's 100 public school systems with the most students, Montgomery and Prince George's counties placed fourth and ninth.

Kate Jacobson

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

D.C. residents have the highest student debt in the country, according to a new study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, but the data also show D.C. residents paying off their loans quicker than the rest of the nation. People in the District have on average of about $41,000 in student...

Eric P. Newcomer

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

Memorial Day weekend in the D.C. area traditionally means cars full of coolers, kids, grandparents and stressed-out parents stuck in traffic and inching their way to the beach. And it's not changing this year, even though fewer people are expected to travel.

Alan Blinder

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

The District is moving a long-running regulatory clash with the U.S. Department of Labor to a courtroom after a series of rulings that threaten to add $20 million in underpaid wages to the cost of a major mixed-use project.