2021

The District Department of Transportation has launched an online parking permit system for residents’ visitors, contractors and home health aides.

The head of D.C.’s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs said Friday that the construction site where a building collapsed Thursday was last inspected in May, in response to a complaint from a neighbor, and that no violations had…

The larger of the two was as wide as 125 yards on its 4.4-mile path

Just six months ago, the covid-19 unit at Sibley Memorial Hospital was full and doctors at the Northwest D.C. hospital were grappling with a winter surge in pandemic patients.

The D.C. government doesn’t plan to bring back mask requirements, city leaders said at a meeting Friday, even as the delta variant raises concerns about unvaccinated people’s vulnerability to the coronavirus.

The developer who is transforming a Georgetown hotel into one of the neighborhood's largest apartment complexes is already looking to sell the property.

An affiliate of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance Inc. (NYSE: ARI) has acquired the historic Mayflower Hotel in downtown D.C.

This week D.C. launched a new online parking portal, claiming to make visitor parking “easier, safer and more efficient” by allowing residents to print out their own parking permits for visitors.

D.C. is still trying to get pandemic relief money out the door to help residents pay their rent through Stay D.C.

The 21-year-old from D.C. has attracted attention from across the world for poems like "We Just Trying to Grow Up."

More than 1.3 million Washington-area residents are getting outta town for the Fourth of July holiday.

D.C. lawmakers want to send another $30 million in relief grants to businesses after Mayor Muriel Bowser’s 2022 budget proposal was light on direct assistance for struggling companies.

Last month, we organized the first ever “Sidewalk Palooza” to draw attention to pedestrian infrastructure and pedestrian safety issues in DC and the disparity between the city’s response time to these problems versus road infrastructure…

Georgetown’s small experiment with wider sidewalks that it launched in January to accommodate more outside restaurant seating proved popular enough that it’s been greatly expanded, and the sidewalk additions will remain in place through at…

The Library of Congress is our national library, yet its name does not embody that fact. It is our oldest national cultural institution, and debates about its name have swirled since its founding. The headline of an 1897 article in the…

Vaccines are helping us protect ourselves from the coronavirus, but what will protect our children from a widening opportunity gap and the mental health challenges exacerbated by all that we’ve lost over the past 15 months?