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The FBI made the call to keep its headquarters in downtown D.C. without guidance from officials at the General Services Administration, according to a top agency official.

Public charter schools in D.C. have recently come under scrutiny for what many see as a lack of transparency. Unlike traditional public schools, charters aren’t required to make salaries, records, or vendor contracts under $100,000 public,…

The National Zoo said Wednesday that it received permission last week from the National Capital Planning Commission to proceed with a controversial plan to extend security fencing around its complex.

Years after a planned-unit development (PUD) for the McMillan Reservoir received zoning approval, and two years after a ceremonial groundbreaking, the project remains under appeal.

But the committee's lived-experience role remains unfilled.

The Gay & Lesbian Activists Alliance, D.C.’s oldest continuously active LGBT rights organization, is calling for D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) to step down as chair of the Council’s Committee on Finance and Revenue while he…

Edens has plans in the works for a new 300-unit residential development at Union Market.

About 70 transgender activists and their supporters turned out on Tuesday for a protest outside the D.C. Superior Court building after a trial at the courthouse of two men charged with the 2016 murder of transgender woman Deeniquia “Dee…

Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) is experimenting with a new banking concept in the District with plans to open two “digital express centers” this year.

Advocates say the center is a major step forward in the fight for health equity, and long overdue.

Demonstrators say the judicial system doesn't seem to value the lives of transgender individuals

A racist slur hurled at three black children on a D.C. schoolyard has forced a public elementary school with a mostly white and affluent student body to address its discipline policies and examine whether the school is inclusive to…

SWEEPING LEGISLATION passed by the House aimed at getting the influence of money out of politics and expanding voting access includes a general endorsement of statehood for the District of Columbia. The bill, championed by Democrats, has…

District officials have dropped a lawsuit that sought to stop Providence Hospital from closing, removing the last major obstacle to plans by a nonprofit health-care chain to shut down most services at the Northeast Washington facility.

At the corner of Malcolm X Avenue and Martin Luther King Avenue in Congress Heights sits a federal park that’s known mostly to people who live in the area. Officially known to the National Park Service as Shepherd Park, residents have long…

The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, D.C.’s largest local LGBT political group, approved a resolution Monday night calling for D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) to temporarily resign from his position as chair of an influential…

D.C. Council member Jack ­Evans (D-Ward 2) privately told fellow lawmakers Tuesday that he plans to end the consulting business that has made him the target of an expanding federal investigation, according to several people in the room.

St. John’s sophomore guard Azzi Fudd was named the Gatorade girls’ basketball national player of the year Tuesday, adding one of the most prestigious awards in high school sports to her growing list of accolades.

Requin at The Wharf has joined the list of Mike Isabella restaurants in Chapter 7 bankruptcy.