2019

She wants to have a meeting or hear solutions from Mayor Bowser and Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White.

When the D.C. Council voted in January to decriminalize fare evasion on Metro’s trains and buses, it left a $50 fine as the only penalty.

"We went to D.C. a couple of times and saw there was always a waiting list at Le Diplomate and Barcelona Wine Bar."

After Rayful Edmond III was convicted on drug charges and sent to federal prison for life in late 1989, D.C. residents could have thought it was the last they would hear — or ever see — of the drug kingpin once referred to as the “Babe…

A slew of longtime establishments on the 14th Street NW corridor have closed or announced their impending closures in the past two weeks, and a majority of them will be replaced by out-of-town restaurants.

An association is looking to sell its Downtown D.C. office building, and the buyer could tear it down and build a taller replacement.

The city is hosting a series of collection events through December

The filming of a TV miniseries will close some streets in downtown Washington this weekend, officials said Thursday.

D.C.'s top economic development official is leaving government to join Amazon as the tech giant builds its second headquarters in Northern Virginia.

Many waterways in the D.C. area are polluted with plastic. But it’s not just bottles and cups and bags: the rivers and creeks also are filled with pieces of plastic so tiny they are barely visible. The Anacostia River, in particular, has a…

This year, D.C.’s rate of drug overdose deaths is third highest in the nation, up from seventeenth, according to a panel convened last month by the American Association of Medical Colleges to discuss ways to deal with opioid addiction. The…

Mayor Bowser’s Interagency Council on Homelessness collaborated with the Greater Washington Community Foundation to launch the Partnership to End Homelessness on June 6. The public-private initiative intends to increase the supply of…

The owner of Shrimp Boat Plaza by the Benning Road Metro station is weighing whether to raze the building in favor of apartments over retail, anchored by a Checkers fast-food restaurant.

In June 1989, at the height of the AIDS crisis, staff at the Corcoran Gallery of Art were preparing to open an exhibition of nearly 150 black-and-white photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe. The photographer had died of AIDS that spring at…

The District government’s top economic development official is stepping down to join Amazon, a spokeswoman for Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said Thursday.

Brian Kenner is leaving the Bowser administration to work for the tech company

Brian Kenner will end his four-and-a-half year tenure as D.C. deputy mayor for planning and economic development in early July to take a job with Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), where he’ll tackle regional economic development issues in…

People had different reactions when Navid Azeez told them he was writing a show about the events of October 2002, when the ‘D.C. sniper’ (actually a 41-year-old and 17-year-old pair) terrorized the D.C. area over 22 days, killing 10 people…

Rents along the popular dining corridor have doubled over the past 10 years