2018

The District is close to locking in a deal for a new transportation department headquarters in the Navy Yard area, where it will kick off the construction of a new office building to be developed by William C. Smith & Co. Inc.

When it was completed in 1855, the Smithsonian Institution’s Castle represented the grand ambitions of a revolutionary education organization. With its library, lecture halls, laboratories and exhibition spaces, the James Renwick-designed…

Belletrist, the online book club co-founded by the actor Emma Roberts and her best friend Karah Preiss, recently named Kramerbooks its indie bookstore of the month.

Today, the Washington DC Economic Partnership held its annual meeting, and in conjunction with the meeting, it released its 2018 development report.

The D.C. Council voted to decriminalize Metro fare evasion on Tuesday after considering the legislation for more than a year and a half.

WASHINGTON — A proposal to exempt children’s play groups from day-care type regulations is moving forward in the D.C. Council.

The race to save Initiative 77 is on.

The end is near. The agenda for the D.C. Council’s penultimate legislative meeting last Tuesday included more than 100 items, from firearm safety to campaign finance reform to turnstile jumping to building a new hospital east of the…

D.C.’s 2018 local elections are finally finished. Frazier O’Leary, the union-backed (and George Pelecanos-endorsed) candidate, won a special election to represent Ward 4 on the Board of Education on Tuesday.

Remember that idea to connect Georgetown and Rosslyn with an aerial gondola? Well, now some of the area’s powerful heads of business are calling to breathe new life into the plan.

The threat of appeal has delayed and deterred many planned-unit developments (PUD) in the District in recent years, although typically these appeals are associated with projects proposing hundreds of housing units in a construction-heavy…

The bill would also ban bump stocks, increase the penalty for high capacity magazines, and make it harder for some people to register a firearm.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday gave final approval for one LGBT supportive bill and preliminary approval to another in addition to passing a “Sense of the Council” resolution supporting the transgender community in response to the Trump…

Navy Yard dwellers have been feuding with people who live in Capitol Riverfront. Denizens of the Ballpark District are tussling with residents of Southeast Waterfront. The South Capitol Hill crowd is getting into it with folks from the…

Today you may encounter petitioners looking for your signature. The 'Save Our Vote' campaign led by Restaurant Opportunities Center United and Rev. Graylan Hagler were given the green light to forge ahead with their referendum to repeal the…

The D.C. Council on Tuesday cast a first vote in favor of bringing legal sports betting to the nation’s capital, pushing the city one step closer to becoming the first place in the Washington region to capitalize on the increasingly…

Sweeping changes to the District’s campaign finance regulations could soon become law, after the D.C. Council gave final approval Tuesday to a bill aimed at curbing the influence of government contractors in local politics.

Well, that was anticlimactic: Late in today's legislative meeting, Vince Gray moved to postpone a vote on his bill to Dec. 18, after a flurry of amendments appeared to blindside him.