2018

The much-ballyhooed Upshur Street has seen some surprising headlines in recent weeks: closings, rather than openings.

One way or another, D.C. gas station owners should soon be able to petition the city to redevelop their properties — an option unavailable to them for the last dozen years.

George Washington University Hospital—the Universal Healthcare Services-owned, 370-bed facility in Foggy Bottom—is really super committed to D.C.'s healthcare.

At the corner of 15th Street and Irving Street Northwest on a cold November morning, a man stands by a cart laden with granola bars, fruit, bottles of water and books. As people hurry by on their morning commute, he calls out, “Good…

George Washington University Hospital has suspended negotiations with the District to build and run a new hospital east of the Anacostia River, telling city officials in a letter Wednesday that conditions placed on the deal this week by the…

Taronica wants a Chili’s east of the river. It’s not because she wants to mix and match different flavors of ribs on a Friday night. She currently works at a location of the chain in Alexandria and wishes there were more restaurants in her…

On a recent afternoon, Derrick Young set up a microphone, unfolded some tables and put the finishing touches on an open space near MahoganyBooks, an African American bookstore he opened with his wife, Ramunda, in the District’s Ward 8 last…

In just under two weeks, the D.C. Council will take a final vote on whether to finance $56 million dollars’ worth of a long-planned redevelopment along Rhode Island Ave. NE. 

A neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide to shopping local for the holidays

While the eyes of much of the world were trained on the throngs of D.C. visitors paying their respects to George H.W. Bush, Annie Maiden was in her Northwest home.

A 96-year-old woman died after a fire consumed her house in Shaw late Tuesday as her neighborhood’s assigned firetruck was covering Southeast amid a shortage of reserve emergency vehicles.

WASHINGTON -- A proposal to bring more public restrooms to D.C. has passed an important hurdle.

In the last act of a busy local election year, District voters Tuesday in Ward 4 picked Frazier O’Leary to represent them on the D.C. State Board of Education.

It turns out, legalizing pygmy hedgehogs was a more prickly issue than it seemed.

Despite the pleas of Metro and the leaders of its board, the D.C. Council gave final approval on Tuesday to legislation that reclassifies fare evasion in the transit system as a civil offense.

The Washington Area Bicyclist Association (WABA) has issued a new action plan on traffic safety that calls for building 25 miles of bike lanes a year and reducing the number of vehicles that come into downtown D.C., perhaps through…

Tens of thousands of American high school students each year flock to the National Mall to look up at the larger-than-life monuments to the Founding Fathers: the 554-foot Washington obelisk and the 80,000-square-foot temple to Jefferson on…

George Washington University Hospital is expected to pull out of a tentative deal to run a new Southeast D.C. hospital because of new provisions backed Tuesday night by many D.C. Council members, according to a source familiar with the…