2020

The D.C. Council members on Tuesday introduced legislation that would require landlords to provide air conditioning to elderly tenants and would strengthen the city’s ethics laws.

It was a nail-biter of a vote. But in the end, a frantic attempt to keep the doors open at Washington Metropolitan Opportunity Academy failed to get the ­supermajority of D.C. Council support needed.

The Office of D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine says dozens of recent car thefts in the District could be linked to Getaround, an app that allows users to rent their personal cars to others.

The Four Seasons Hotel in Washington D.C. cracked the top 10 list of best hotels in the U.S. from U.S. News and World Report for 2020, while the D.C.'s Trump International Hotel, a luxury property that's been going head-to-head with Four…

A proposed bill that could require restaurants, bars, and nightclubs, including gay bars, to install diaper changing tables in women’s and men’s bathrooms, was the subject of a D.C. Council hearing on Jan. 28.

On the day of the ribbon cutting for the new St. Jerome Library at St. Thomas More Catholic Academy in Washington, D.C., the banner outside the door showed an open book, with a rocket ship flying, a ship sailing and a castle’s tower…

The District’s efforts to buy and shut down a trash transfer station in Brentwood are getting more expensive — and dragging on a bit longer.

The D.C. Council is taking some tentative new steps toward regulating electronic gaming machines with cash payouts, as one company works to install the devices in the District even as they face intense legislative scrutiny in Virginia.

At the Shipley Super Market in Southeast Washington, Crystal Dozier walked past a rack of potato chips and pork rinds. There were shelves of candy bars and cookies, but she ignored those, too. Long rows of sodas, beer and booze hardly…

An employee at a D.C. Burger King says she has filed a complaint with the D.C. Office of Human Rights for alleged discrimination at her workplace.

After operating for four years, DIY maker’s space the Lemon Collective is closing its Petworth location on February 29.

It’s getting harder to be considered wealthy in the District of Columbia. In 2019, the percentage of D.C. residents reporting at least $100,001 in personal income hit an all-time high.

A new study out of University of California Berkeley found that a majority of self-identifying Native Americans take offense to the Washington NFL team’s name, contradicting previous research.

Taco Bell will open its second Washington-area Cantina location in the District.