2021

After years of public debate and development delays, the DC Council resumed consideration of amendments to the city's Comprehensive Plan on Tuesday — and the implications of passage remain unclear.

Tony Lewis Jr. was 9 years old when his father was sentenced to life in prison for drug dealing. A father in prison is known to increase the chances of the son following in his footsteps. Not so with Lewis. He went to college, not jail.

The final departure Monday night out of Gate 35X began with a water cannon salute and ended in the most Gate 35X way possible: a delay because of maintenance issues.

D.C.’s schools chancellor on Tuesday proposed renaming Woodrow Wilson High in Northwest Washington after August Wilson, the celebrated playwright known for his revelatory art about the African-American experience in the 20th century.

Washington Sports Club’s parent company will pay D.C. $100,000 as part of a settlement over allegations that it did not adhere to the city’s COVID-19 emergency protocols and put customers at risk.

D.C. officials have selected a team of developers to remake a pair of shuttered schools near Truxton Circle into a mix of apartments and for-sale townhomes, including some managed by a community land trust to build opportunities for…

The Biden administration issued a policy position Tuesday in support of D.C. statehood, forcefully backing legislation to make the District the 51st state ahead of a House vote scheduled for Thursday.

As the D.C. Council prepares to debate and propose amendments to the city’s Comprehensive Plan, a new analysis from the Council’s Office of Racial Equity has issued a withering assessment of the plan’s impact on racial equity.

The White House said Tuesday that it “strongly supports” a bill heading to a House vote later this week that would make D.C. the 51st state, saying that passing the bill into law would “make our Union stronger and more just.”

More than a year after the coronavirus pandemic brought in-person instruction to a grinding halt, colleges and universities across the region are hoping the increasing availability of COVID-19 vaccines could signal a return to some…

The Biden administration has officially backed statehood for D.C.

Upon learning to read while enslaved, Frederick Douglass began his great journey of emancipation, as such journeys always begin, in the mind. Defying unjust laws, he read in secret, empowered by the wisdom of contemporaries and classics…

Others might not receive their benefits, even after system updates related to federal legislation were completed. Why? It’s complicated.

Chelsea Allinger’s relationship with Greater Greater Washington goes back to not long after she moved to DC at the end of the early 2000s: On a coworker’s recommendation, she became a regular reader of what was then an urbanism blog.