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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has for months talked up her plan to see the District add 36,000 new homes by 2025 — and she could be willing to touch a political third rail to meet that goal.

Events D.C. has selected Capitol Riverside Youth Sports Park to manage the 27-acre RFK campus fields complex, the first step in the long-term overhaul of the larger site.

While some developments in the city are faced with questions about the feasibility of the office market, a proposed project in Georgetown aims to add office space to Wisconsin Avenue.

Residents in the region say they have a better opinion of Metro than they did two years ago, according to a new poll from the Washington Post and the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.

As the sun set at the Brentwood Recreation Center on Thursday night, Catherine Young took the microphone and began speaking to the gathered crowd about her son, D’Quan.

The city has converted a cultural gem entrusted to the entire city into an exclusive outlet that serves only the few.

The decade-long development of Constitution Square, a six-building, 2.7M SF complex at the heart of the booming NoMa neighborhood, will be completed this month.

TGIF! Phil Mendelson is sticking with his proposed changes to open records laws through a budget provision despite calls for a public hearing.

With the redevelopment of the former Superfresh grocery site in Spring Valley still up in the air after 3.5 years, the development team is taking a new route.

A Georgetown property owner is proposing to rehabilitate and connect adjacent Wisconsin Avenue properties while converting the entirety to commercial.

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson is threatening to withhold building permits for government building projects if Mayor Muriel Bowser fails to implement a law passed by the Council last year that will regulate and restrict short-term…

It was May 12, 1959, when Walter and Sigrid Loeb opened the original location of Loeb’s Deli at 617 15th St. NW, at the corner of 15th and G. Sixty years and two locations later, it is still a family affair.

The estimated value of all taxable real estate in D.C. is $153 billion. The 10 properties in the gallery above — the most valuable taxable properties in the District — account for 2.64% of that, or about $5.6 billion.

Metro’s reputation in the region has improved dramatically in the past two years and has almost reached the positive levels it enjoyed before a fatal smoke incident in 2015, according to a Washington Post-Schar School poll.

The D.C. Council in 2018 adopted one of the toughest home-sharing laws in the country, denying the rental of second homes via websites such as Airbnb and restricting the rental of rooms in primary homes to no more than 90 days when the…

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) is threatening to block construction of city government buildings to pressure Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) to move forward to implement a new law imposing strict limits on Airbnb and other short-term…

The life of British Ambassador to the United States Kim Darroch is going to be different this weekend.

Traffic in Washington is already bad and could get worse when autonomous vehicles arrive. But D.C. Council members want to look at ways to reduce congestion and delays and move more people than cars. So how do you do that?

It’s pretty normal for a caregiver to check the sky for rain before taking the kids outside to play.

The ethics scandal surrounding D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) has prompted some local activists to go door-to-door in his district to make the case for stronger ethics laws.