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Street safety improvements are planned for a large area of Northwest from Spring Valley to the Potomac River

Proposed changes to the District’s Freedom of Information Act will not be one of the issues the D.C. Council considers during its first round of budget debates Tuesday.

Shaw residents want a new middle school, but Banneker High needs a new facility. It has become the latest fight over race and gentrification.

A long-awaited moment in budget season comes when DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson releases his package of budget changes, which combine, reconcile, and sometimes reverse things from the individual committees. Here are some of the…

Arena Stage claimed seven trophies for four shows at Monday night’s Helen Hayes Awards at the Anthem, where the prizes for Washington-area theater were liberally spread out.

The mayor has made her beliefs clear: The fate of a vacant school building on prime real estate in Northwest Washington represents the latest gentrification fight in a city full of them.

Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral, the Washington Monument, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa are in the collection

The former publisher of The Current newspapers petitioned to change the company’s bankruptcy filing from a Chapter 11 to a Chapter 7 in late April, further eroding any hope that the 52-year-old publication would survive its financial…

As the D.C. Council was poised to vote Tuesday on a $15.5 billion budget for the coming fiscal year, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) continued to skirmish with lawmakers over two of District residents’ top priorities: Housing and education.

Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, a Catholic girls’ high school, has adopted a policy for its alumnae magazine contrary to Catholic Church teaching — a move that has taken the Archdiocese of Washington by surprise.

There have been several studies outlining the magnitude of gentrification and displacement over the past few months, with some concluding that DC is one of the most heavily-gentrified cities in the country. Far less consistent across these…

After years of mechanical problems plaguing the District’s emergency response vehicles, the D.C. Council is moving to fund $65 million in fixes.

A 100-year-old building near Dupont Circle with retail and office space has just traded hands.

When wildlife biologist Natasha Garcia-Andersen was asked to write the regulations for beekeepers in D.C. back in 2012, her first thought was, people are keeping bees in DC? At the time, it seemed strange that D.C. might also be home to…

Josh Williams walked everywhere. With no money for the Metro, let alone an Uber, he would slap on his headphones, turn up his tunes and start striding, shimmying or step-dancing the long blocks from wherever he was to the worn leather sofa…

The street redesign has been planned for over a decade and is set to be completed by fall 2020

The DC-area housing market roared back in April.

The median price of a house or condo sold in the D.C. metro area in April was $475,000, up 5.6% from a year ago — and the highest overall monthly median sales price in the last decade.

Georgetown landowner EastBanc has plans to breathe new life into the prominent corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Prospect Street NW.

On a mild afternoon three days after Christmas last year, Daryl and his teenage son sat in their car on a residential street in Northeast D.C. waiting to pick up a friend. As he used his phone to buy tickets for a wrestling match they were…