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If you want to get a glimpse of how D.C.’s relationship with its rivers has changed in the past few years, head down to the Anacostia waterfront on a Friday evening.

A new 108-unit apartment building at 1400 Montana Ave. NE is among the District’s first projects under the federal government’s new opportunity zone program, enacted as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Under the program, anyone…

One-hundred-year storms, of the kind that wreaked havoc on the nation’s capital Monday, are expected to become 1-in-25-year events by mid-century.

When the Douglass Community Land Trust (DCLT) was birthed out of the 11th Street Bridge Park project a few years ago, the notion of a land trust in DC was relatively novel. Now, as the DCLT works through various letters of intent to…

President Donald Trump’s “Salute to America” on the National Mall this past Fourth of July has D.C.’s mayor seeing red — especially when it comes to the District’s funds.

The Fourth of July celebrations in D.C., which included President Trump’s “Salute to America,” cost the District approximately $1.7 million, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Tuesday.

A federal court has come to a decision that could end the two-year legal battle over foreign payments to the Trump International Hotel in D.C.

Political posturing, ethics investigations, committee responsibilities and revenue allocation. All these factors played into the D.C. Council’s 7-5 vote on Tuesday to approve a $215 million, five-year contract with Greek gaming company…

The ongoing process to revise the long-term plan guiding D.C.’s development took a long-awaited step forward Tuesday.

The renovation and modernization of Kimball Elementary School (3375 Minnesota Ave. SE) is nearly complete. The $55 million project began in January 2018 and is expected to complete this July, with teachers scheduled to move into the…

Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) on Tuesday hosted a community forum on the recent spate of anti-LGBT attacks in the nation’s capital.

A federal appeals has dealt a major blow to D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine and Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh’s lawsuit against the president.

A federal appeals court Wednesday sided with President Trump, dismissing a lawsuit claiming the president is illegally profiting from foreign and state government visitors at his luxury hotel in downtown Washington.

President Trump’s overhauled July Fourth celebration cost the D.C. government $1.7 million, an amount that — combined with police expenses for demonstrations through the weekend — has bankrupted a special fund used to protect the nation’s…

Over a year since the issue was last debated for 13 hours in the Wilson Building, an edited Comprehensive Plan Framework for DC took its first step toward potential implementation on Tuesday.

Children running a lemonade stand or other small-scale, limited time business in D.C. are technically required to get a business license and/or a vending site permit (and similar restrictions apply in most other states). But the D.C.…

Despite efforts to improve bus service in the District to make it a more attractive option for travel, it continues to be slow and unreliable, with some saying the situation has reached a crisis point.

Embedded inside the so-called 'Space Window' is a 3 billion year-old moon rock.

Taking the bus is too frustrating in D.C., and major changes are needed if the city is going to deal with significant problems facing commuters, a new Metrobus report card finds.

In a roll call vote Tuesday evening, D.C. Councilman Jack Evans cast the final vote needed to approve a $215 million sole-source contract with Greek gaming company Intralot that will bring online sports wagering to the District.