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Starting in July 2020, more than half a million people who work in the private sector in D.C. could be eligible for the District’s new paid family leave program. It gives new parents a portion of their wages for up to eight weeks.

The Smithsonian National Zoo has backed off an earlier proposal to build security checkpoints at zoo entrances after public backlash against the plan. But in a new plan approved by the National Capital Planning Commission on Thursday, it’s…

The researchers could have led with the numbers — homes purchased, local small businesses assisted, construction worker trainees placed, pounds of fruit and vegetables harvested.

One day in the late 1920s or early ’30s, a worker on the Arlington Memorial Bridge project stood before a slab of granite that would become a bench on the structure and drew the notation “P 5” in black paint.

Yotel, an ultramodern hotel chain out of the United Kingdom, is coming to the District.

Tishman Speyer is selling a development site in the fast-growing NoMa neighborhood it has planned as an office project for over a decade.

The vote to reprimand Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans for trying to parlay his public service for personal gain “will be, I believe, a unanimous vote,” aside from Evans himself, says his Council colleague, Ward 3’s Mary Cheh.

The Greene Turtle, a chain sports bar in Capital One Arena that’s the quickest bar to funnel into for a post-game beer, announced it will close next month after accepting a lease buyout offer from Monumental Sports & Entertainment.

It was yet another fancy-pants event in Washington — red carpet, velvet ropes, fur coats, earpiece guardians of the guest list.

The Capital One Arena will soon welcome a new concept in the prime retail space on the Sixth and F street NW corner.

D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine (D) is backing California Sen. Kamala D. Harris in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.

At least 24 members of the D.C. Democratic State Committee have signed a letter asking D.C. Council member Jack Evans to resign from his elected position as National Committeeman.

Serving platters, tea kettles and kitchen towels line the perimeter of the 14th Street shop Home Rule. A quirky sink display overflows with glittery gold sponges, and shower curtains hang from the ceiling.

In recent years, various DC communities have preemptively sought to have certain properties designated as historic landmarks in order to preclude larger development on those sites. Today, however, one property owner has succeeded in…

Good fences make good neighbors, and Smithsonian’s National Zoo is hoping to continue making the place a neighborly place to visit by adding more fences throughout the zoo to increase visitor safety.

Workers need to remove a median to make way for a new tunnel designed to reduce sewage overflows into waterways and backups into basements.

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As the District’s legislative auditor, I am already wringing my hands in worry over the rough time that Councilmembers are going to have in fashioning a Fiscal Year 2020 budget later this spring. They’ll be working without a windfall in…

Teachers at the District’s only unionized charter filed a federal labor complaint against their bosses Wednesday, six weeks after the charter network announced it would close its middle school campus.

D.C. firefighters rescued a worker who was stranded more than 100 feet in the air while working on a D.C. government telecommunications tower in Northwest Washington on Wednesday afternoon.