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The D.C. fast casual sector has reached its angsty teenager phase. No longer the new kid and not quite a mature industry, these restaurants that now seem as ubiquitous as fast-food burger joints, aim to provide customizable, high quality…

WASHINGTON — The D.C. Council Judiciary and Public Safety Committee has voted unanimously to join Maryland and a dozen other states with “red flag” laws — laws intended to temporarily remove guns from the hands of individuals who may be in…

Every month or so, a group of mostly white-haired (or no-haired) old timers meets in a hotel ballroom for lunch, iced tea and nostalgic talk of the good old days.

Black journalists are underrepresented in D.C. newsrooms. That’s a problem for everyone.

The District’s streets could have as many as 7,000 shared scooters and 3,000 dockless bicycles by early 2019.

Early this summer, Ward 1 neighbors and lawmakers directed a fresh wave of scrutiny at The Line Hotel in Adams Morgan after revelations that the hotel was operating under a series of temporary certificates of occupancy, despite the fact…

If you’ve ever tried riding a bike on Connecticut Ave., Northwest, during rush hour, there’s one way to describe it:

Children’s National Health System’s long-planned research and innovation campus at the former Walter Reed Medical Center is finally taking shape.

Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington has submitted plans for what will be one of, if not the, largest solar arrays in D.C., in an effort to cut its energy costs and fund improvements to its facilities.

Applications to become the District’s first nightlife director came in from across the country and around the world, but Mayor Muriel E. Bowser selected a lead investigator from her own liquor board to take on the city’s “after-hours…

Of municipal government’s many mundane functions, perhaps none is less attention-grabbing than the collection of water and sewer fees.

None of the bartenders with political ambitions got the "Nightlife Mayor" gig. No surprise there. Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser named Shawn Townsend to the position, whose official title is "Director of The Mayor's Office of Nightlife and…

Three senior officials at the D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs were fired this week, less than 10 days after the agency’s director,  Melinda Bolling, announced that she was leaving for another job.

What's it like for a retiree on a fixed income to live in a place where everything new seems geared toward millennials?

Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White has asked Jack Evans, Ward 2 Councilmember and chairman of the Council's finance and revenue committee, not to mark up a bill that would divert some $60 million in tax increment bond financing to a…

One of Capitol Hill’s most-beloved used bookstores is shuttering after 17 years consigning rare books, giving out dog treats to neighborhood pups, and serving afternoon tea for a loyal band of local customers. Riverby Books on East Capitol…

Former director Melinda Bolling and three high level employees leave behind a FOIA lawsuit and lingering problems.

For a long time, the Anacostia River didn’t even have a name. It was just the Eastern Branch, the other, less promising section of Washington, D.C.’s better known and more distinguished river, the Potomac. But it was always known as a…

WASHINGTON -- A D.C. high school with an historic past will soon get a new building in the heart of the city, but not without some controversy.

The District has struggled to recruit candidates to fill the city’s top education job, which has sat vacant nine months, according to a top elected official.