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Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) said he will stop his outside consulting and legal work, which has sparked an investigation into influence peddling by federal authorities and placed Evans at the center of an ethics scandal.

The long-shuttered hotel property on L’Enfant Plaza, now dubbed the Hilton Washington D.C. National Mall, has reopened after a closure of more than five years.

The parents of a 10-year-old D.C. girl who was shot and killed while walking to an ice cream truck last summer are suing the District.

The family of 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson, who was fatally shot last year while heading to an ice cream truck, filed a lawsuit against the D.C. Housing Authority, alleging that it failed to provide adequate security at the public housing…

Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced at a D.C. Superior Court hearing on Tuesday that they were dropping a charge of misdemeanor solicitation for prostitution against transgender activist Dee Curry.

The Board of Trustees would still need to approve the measure

Since D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office released the city’s first-ever Cultural Plan last week, artists and arts leaders have been poring over the 224-page document to see how the city plans to support them and their work.

Union Drinkery, a neighborhood bar by A&D and SUNdeVICH owner Ali Bagheri, will close on April 27. A new wine shop and bar called Saint Vincent will take its place in the fall, according to the Washington City Paper.

From D.C. to Dallas, cities are drafting documents to help protect their cultural resources from economic changes. But too often, these plans lack teeth.

The playground at Neval Thomas Elementary in Northeast D.C. looks like a lot of schools’. It has slides and monkey bars, but look at the asphalt around it, and you’ll see a new paint job that’s fun and functional.

Home to the world’s largest Shakespeare collection, the Folger Shakespeare Library is planning an underground expansion to draw more visitors to its renowned holdings and spark interest in the playwright’s work.

In black letters on a blue poster board, a question beckons from a wall at Duke Ellington School of the Arts: “Why is it hard for you to take responsibility for your mistakes?”

The consequences for children and its employees have been devastating.

Paulette Matthews, the Vice President of the Barry Farm Tenants and Allies Association, regularly attends the D.C. Housing Authority Board of Commissioners meeting, asking for an update on Barry Farm, a public housing development in…

The D.C. mayor and the Prince George’s County, Maryland, Executive have joined forces to fight a common problem in their jurisdictions: illegal dumping and assault against sex workers.

A new for-sale multifamily development is planned near the Rhode Island Avenue Metro station, continuing the expansion of Northeast D.C.'s condo market.

A local startup that connects businesses with short-term retail space is now opening a space of its own — for those businesses to set up shop.

The D.C. area has the room to handle housing for all the new jobs and workers expected to arrive over the next 26 years, according a Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments study.

After extensive renovations, the Historical Society of Washington (and Apple) will move in soon.