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One person has died and several people were injured in Northeast D.C. Thursday night after a Metrobus and a car crashed head-on, authorities say. The car and bus collided shortly before midnight at Benning Road and Minnesota Avenue NE, Metro says. The driver of the car died was taken to the hospital and died Friday morning, the Metropolitan Police...

Metro is planning a massive station shutdown ahead of the inauguration. Beginning Friday, over a dozen stations will start to close downtown. Transportation Reporter Adam Tuss has a message from Metro’s leader about what you should not be doing over the next week.

Metro said it will not have to make the most drastic cuts in its budget proposal from last month. The transit agency said it expects to receive about $610 million as part of the latest COVID-19 relief bill passed by Congress. The money will help avoid planned layoffs and service cuts through the end of June. Metro said it could…

Metrobus riders are going to see a big change in the new year. Starting Sunday, riders will once again board from the front of the bus and they will have to pay. But amid an ongoing pandemic that has cost thousands their jobs, the return of bus fares is frustrating for many D.C.-area residents. One of them is Nana,...

Metrobus riders are going to see a big change in the new year. Starting Sunday, riders will once again board from the front of the bus and they will have to pay. News4’s Adam Tuss reports.

Metro and its riders are breathing a sigh of relief now that it looks like more federal stimulus money will help prevent service cuts and layoffs. WMATA had discussed cutting Metro’s weekend services, running trains every 30 minutes and closing 19 stations. Now, there’s optimism that about $800 million is set to come to the capital region specifically for transit…

Federal stimulus money could help Metro avoid service cancellations and layoffs. News4’s Transportation reporter Adam Tuss reports.

Metro leaders saw their calls for funding answered in a stimulus bill that Congress passed Monday night. News4’s Justin Finch reports.

The governors of Maryland and Virginia joined the mayor of the District of Columbia in appealing to the incoming Biden administration to provide increased federal support for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

The Metro Transit Police Department revealed Friday a preliminary chronology of the shooting involving an FBI agent earlier this week.

An FBI agent was involved in a shooting on board a Metro train early Tuesday and an investigation is underway, Metro and FBI officials say. A man was shot multiple times and was taken to a hospital. Information on his identity and condition were not immediately released. Metro Transit Police received a report just before 7 a.m. of “an FBI…

An FBI agent was involved in a shooting on a Red Line train at the Medical Center Metro Station. Mark Segraves reports.

Metrorail will temporarily stop running Blue Line trains and add extra Yellow Line trains for three months in early 2021.

A shooting abroad a Metro Red Line train involved an FBI agent, the FBI and Metro say. One person was taken to a hospital, police say.

Two Metrorail trains with passengers were disabled in D.C. Sunday evening due to a lack of power, according to Metro. The trains were evacuated, and no injuries were reported. One train got stuck near the Fort Totten station, according to D.C. Fire and EMS. Another train got stuck in a tunnel closest to the Georgia Avenue-Petworth station. Train service...

New claims set to be released Friday will call into question recent reports from Metro’s lead safety oversight group, the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation. Without directly saying recent reports by the Safety Commission were falsified, several groups are asking whether the Commission had evidence to support damaging claims made against Metro’s...

Metro’s board of directors has given preliminary approval to a plan that would drastically cut service and slash jobs.

News4 has new information on the Metro train cars that separated on the Red Line at Glenmont last week. A number of lose and worn bolts were found on the train’s coupler, the part of the train that holds railcars together. Investigators told News4 their findings are preliminary but they had a chance to inspect the railcars closely this...

Members of Congress included $15 billion for transit in a COVID-19 relief bill on Tuesday, a day after officials with D.C.’s Metro system said they would need to significantly cut service without federal relief funds.  A bipartisan group of lawmakers including Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, proposed $908 billion in a split-the-difference solution...