2021

The District’s newest Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner will remain at the D.C. Jail for now, after an effort to transfer him to a federal prison in Pennsylvania was reversed.

Voting by mail may be here to stay in the District, if new legislation introduced by the city council goes through.

Skanska will do something this week few other developers are willing to do in this market racked by historically high vacancy rates: break ground on a new office building in the District.

Former Philadelphia health commissioner Thomas Farley made national headlines in May when he admitted to ordering the cremation and disposal of human remains that belonged to victims of a 1985 police bombing in West Philadelphia years ago,…

People are already hating on 771. We're not so sure.

Here’s something to look forward to as everyone braces for the winter chill: D.C.’s annual rite of spring, the National Cherry Blossom Festival, will return to being all in-person when it kicks off in March.

D.C. Deputy Mayor Wayne Turnage fired back at critics of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s approach to clearing some of the District’s most sprawling homeless encampments during a roundtable discussion Tuesday, defending the pilot program and…

Political leaders in D.C. successfully scrambled on Tuesday to prevent one of their own — a D.C. elected official who holds his position while incarcerated in the city’s jail — from being transferred to a federal prison more than 100 miles…

Like voting by mail? New legislation in the D.C. Council would make it permanent for every election going forward.

Joel Caston’s attorney James Zeigler tweeted Tuesday afternoon that the U.S. Parole Commission says it will not transfer Caston. “Thank you to everyone who called and voiced your support on Joel’s behalf,” Zeigler wrote. “Everyone is…

Zhanyah Johnson smiled ear to ear as she crossed the football field at Theodore Roosevelt High School in the District to accept her crown.

For two months, Howard University students have been protesting what they describe as unacceptable living conditions on campus, including unsanitary dorms, a lack of housing or residential planning for freshmen, and underrepresentation of…

DCity Smokehouse, HalfSmoke and Highlands cafe are among the businesses prepping new locations east of the Anacostia River thanks to a new DC grant program.