transportation workers

The longest-running Metrobus strike the D.C. area has ever seen could soon come to an end.

A woman spent six days in the Arizona desert after her car veered off a highway, surviving injuries from the crash and getting rescued after roadway workers noticed a broken fence, authorities said Wednesday. The Department of Public Safety said two state transportation workers and a rancher were corralling a bull on the other side of a fence along a...

The “gig” economy might not be the new frontier for America’s workforce after all. From Uber to TaskRabbit to YourMechanic, so-called gig work has been widely seen as ideal for people who want the flexibility and independence that traditional jobs don’t offer. Yet the evidence is growing that over time, they don’t deliver the financial returns many expect. And they...

The drivers are summoned by a Lyft app. They are expected to entertain with storytelling as they whisk passengers around Walt Disney World in what are known as “Minnie Vans,” named after Minnie Mouse. And now these drivers can be represented by a union. A regional director of the National Labor Relations Board last week ruled about 60 drivers who...

Crews are already pretreating roads around the D.C. area ahead of a late-season storm that is expected to dump up to several inches of snow on the region.

As people across the eastern United States prepare for this weekend’s winter storm, here’s what we know:

It’s the question on everyone’s mind this morning: Where are the plows?

Digging out from the snow has gone digital across the D.C. region.