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Amid angry testimony, the District reports a 30 percent reduction in opioid deaths in the last year. But leaders don’t trust that data point.

The first of three hearings leading up to the D.C. Council’s vote on the nomination of Lewis D. Ferebee as the District’s schools chancellor is scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Even the homeless who stay outside federal buildings suffered acute hardship during the shutdown.

The D.C. Lottery wants the D.C. Council to approve a bill that would allow the agency to negotiate a new contract with its current vendor, circumventing an open procurement process and ensuring the city gets a sports betting platform…

WASHINGTON — How soon people can place legal sports bets in D.C. will depend on how city lawmakers decide to handle the March 2020 expiration of the D.C. Lottery contract.

Warning letters in hand, Zach Rybarczyk patrolled the food court at Union Station, looking for offenders.

DC Police Chief Peter Newsham plans to announce even more crime prevention measures as the homicide wave from last year pushes into 2019.

This past weekend four men were killed in the District.

D.C. lawmakers, public health experts, doctors and addiction treatment providers forcefully criticized the city’s efforts to address an explosion in fatal opioid overdoses, saying at a D.C. Council hearing Monday that city officials failed…

D.C. officials on Monday defended efforts to award a sole-source contract to run the city’s upcoming sports gambling program, insisting that the normal competitive bidding process would delay legal bettingand cost the city tens of millions…

It sounds like a lot of residents in the D.C. region are hearing bothersome helicopter noise on a regular basis, according to five Democratic congressional members who represent the area.

Shop Made in D.C. is expanding into a new quadrant. 

The District’s chief financial officer said Monday that online sports gambling could begin as early as this fall. Bettors could wage phone-based bets on outcomes and performances of both pro and college sporting events.

Whitman-Walker Health System’s 14th Street NW redevelopment including the former Elizabeth Taylor Medical Center is on track to deliver in June — as Liz.

The re-introduced D.C. Statehood bill in the House of Representatives, H.R. 51, is having a historic moment with a record 189 co-sponsors as of Jan. 25, 2019—30 of them among the 101 freshman members of the 116th Congress.

Skanska has signed a ground-lease with JBG Smith Properties Inc. to develop 1700 M St. NW with, likely, a trophy office building — and it already has two designs from which to choose.

D.C. lawmakers want to know why the District continues to see a rise of opioid-related overdose deaths, despite millions of dollars being poured in to combat the issue.

Late last summer, we got an exciting glimpse at the plans for the next phase of Art Place Fort Totten. Now, the project looks a tad different.

A Georgetown retail building has just sold for one of the highest-recorded prices per SF in D.C. history.

The new owner of a L'Enfant Plaza office building has signed lease renewals with two large federal tenants comprising about half of the building.