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WASHINGTON — Typically bustling sidewalks near the Smithsonian’s National Zoo were eerily quiet Wednesday on the first day of the zoo’s closure due to the partial government shutdown.

We asked you for fiction firmly rooted in D.C.—stories that brought us into neighborhoods, and that weren’t just about the District, but of it. Nearly 50 writers answered the call with entries that had strong common themes connecting them.…

WASHINGTON - A member of D.C.’s Advisory Neighborhood Commission is crying foul after she filed a public records request for police body cam video, and was hit with a huge bill.

Demand for D.C. office space in 2018 reached its highest level in nearly a decade, but the city's ongoing construction boom and other potential headwinds could keep vacancy rates elevated for years to come.

Of all the casualties of the federal government shutdown — sidelined employees, shuttered museums, the dark Panda Cam at the National Zoo — few anticipated this one: holy matrimony.

The partial government shutdown has closed the D.C. Marriage Bureau, halting civil ceremonies and the issuing of marriage licenses. For one local couple, a Jan. 12 wedding ceremony in downtown D.C. will go on. But "I would still like the…

Those hoping to get their marriage licenses in the District got some bad news after the government shutdown: The D.C. Marriage Bureau is closed as well.

The education technology company Blackboard is moving its corporate headquarters from the District to Reston in 2019, fewer than four years after striking a deal to remain in D.C. thanks to incentives from the city.

The massive Market Terminal development at Union Market is taking another leap forward.

Howard University is stepping up outreach to local business community leaders — and it’s hired a familiar Greater Washington face to do it.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser took the oath of office Wednesday, becoming the first mayor in 16 years reelected to lead the nation’s capital and the first woman to serve multiple terms.

Mayor Muriel Bowser was sworn in for her second term as D.C. mayor on Wednesday, the first mayor to take the oath of office for a second time since 2002. She is also the first woman mayor to be reelected in the city’s history.

Starting Monday morning, Metrorail riders are going to have to make room for bicycles during rush hour.

Last May, UrbanTurf reported on potential plans to redevelop the site of the WTTG Fox 5 television headquarters on Wisconsin Avenue. Now, we have a better idea of how that development could look.

WASHINGTON — Late to work because of Metro? Perhaps Metro’s latest New Year’s resolution can bring some relief.

The 14th Street NW location of Kapnos served its last spit-roasted lamb on Dec. 26, according to partner George Pagonis. It's the most recent Mike Isabella Concepts closure stemming from the Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing that set the…

Once upon a time (most of the 1980s and 1990s), one needed a special permit to bring a bike on a Metro train—and even then, only on weekends or holidays. Over the years, WMATA has slowly relaxed its restrictions, and now the transit agency…

CHC talked to Dan Ridge, outgoing ANC6B Chair, about his decision not to run for ANC6B again and his service on the Commission. An edited version of that conversation follows.

WASHINGTON — Danielle Geanacopoulos and Dan Pollock are no strangers to a government shutdown, having gone through a few when they used to work in Congress.

WASHINGTON — Metrorail riders will now be allowed to bring bikes on trains at all times of day, rather than only outside of rush hour.