2018

Man says when landlord refused to make repairs, she got an assist from the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs to push him out of his home.

A woman living with disabilities shares her nearly year long nightmare with the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs in an effort to maintain her independence.

GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING controversies in the District on matters ranging from the lottery to grass-cutting to homeless shelters have underscored an urgent need for reform. But efforts to bring the District in line with the good-government…

Ask old-timers, and most will say the District used to be a boxing town. Even if the town’s fight scene didn’t stack up against Los Angeles, Philadelphia or Las Vegas, there was the House of Champions, the Latin Connection, Round One and…

Earlier this month, UrbanTurf reported on a proposal to rotate a house on Wisconsin Avenue in the Cleveland Park Historic District, convert it into two units and construct a six-story, 14-unit addition. Now, the project has been given a…

The District offered Amazon.com up to $1 billion in tax incentives to open a second headquarters with 50,000 jobs in D.C., likely the largest subsidy ever offered by the city to a single employer but also far less than other jurisdictions…

As we’ve learned in Charlottesville, Pittsburgh and Orlando, hate is not about geography.

The 1960s-era Sursum Corda low-income housing community near North Capitol Street, a property with a rough history that has long been eyed for development, has begun to be torn down.

Had Amazon decided to build its second headquarters at one of the four sites that D.C. offered the internet retailer, it would have gotten a perk that would make any developer jealous: one-day turnaround on building permits for what was…

As the year winds down and winter inches closer, the District’s human services officials prepare for hypothermia season, making maintenance fixes to shelters in the city’s homeless services system and finalizing contracts for overflow space…

Already a leader in offering universal preschool for three and four-year olds, Washington, D.C. now aims to position itself again at the forefront of early childhood investments. In June, the city council unanimously approved the…

Adams Morgan’s long-rumored Wawa is coming to the former BicycleSpace storefront on the neighborhood's main drag.

Melinda Bolling, the director of the D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, is leaving her post, sources tell WAMU.

The two are collaborating on Albi, an Eastern Mediterranean restaurant, and another Maxwell Park.

DC non-car transportation stakeholders met this week at the Capital Trails Symposium. The nerds—and they would call themselves that—spent all day in sessions discussing the past, present, and future of DC’s bike trails. The gathering,…

Grand movie theaters built in the first half of the 20th century used to have soaring marquees, big balconies and velvet curtains. Today, many of them have been torn down or repurposed as churches, convenience stores or apartments.