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One of the guaranteed write-in candidates for tomorrow’s local election isn’t a living, breathing human. According to Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler, those who are incensed by the outcome of the long battle over Initiative 77 are planning to…

If everything goes according to plan, the team behind DC's 11th Street Bridge Park (map) believe that the city's first elevated park will be complete in four years. UrbanTurf recently checked in to see how the project has stayed the course…

WASHINGTON — A lawsuit was filed Monday on behalf of D.C. residents in a new bid to put legal pressure on Congress to give the District of Columbia full voting rights and representation on Capitol Hill.

Only in their mid-twenties, Mr. Dias and Mr. Dorsey were Aiton Elementary’s senior teachers and created two of its highest-achieving classrooms despite significant challenges. But success came with personal sacrifice, and soon one decided…

On October 23, the Washingtonian published an alarmist article on what receiving Amazon HQ2 could mean for the region: a massive housing shortage.

D.C. voters heading into the polling place on Tuesday will be asked to vote for two candidates for the D.C. Council’s At-Large seats. There are six candidates running: a Democrat, a Republican, a member of the Statehood Green Party and…

WASHINGTON — Seemingly every successful political campaign says it ran a different kind of campaign. But Marion Barry’s first campaign for mayor of D.C., which reached its ultimate goal 40 years ago this week, reflected a change in how the…

As a three-alarm fire ripped through a D.C. seniors facility in September, firefighters discovered that the ladders on Trucks 13 and 16 didn’t work and needed to be replaced with a reserve truck.

Life may have just gotten a little sweeter for small performing arts venues and artists, looking to capitalize on the intimacy, originality and authenticity of their local music.

The nation’s capital is among several American cities where rapid re-development has borne ills such as the destabilization of long-standing communities of color, and increased poverty.

Andre “Smokey” Lee was a solid waste inspector for the Department of Public Works when he first met native Washingtonian Dionne Reeder. He recalls her as a community-minded straight shooter who could connect with everyday people with ease.

Janette Hoston Harris, whose arrest during a lunch counter sit-in led to her expulsion from Southern University in 1960, was being remembered for her role in the civil rights movement following her death Friday in Washington. She was 79. … …

In a year when D.C. schools have been marred by scandals, usually sleepy State Board of Education races have pulled in hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations. Four seats — drawing 10 contenders — are on the ballot Tuesday.…

Josh Lopez can't help himself. The former appointee of Mayor Muriel Bowser and current unbridled antagonizer has injected himself into the at-large Council race once again. In text messages between Lopez and Councilmember Trayon White, …

American socialism is having a moment. Leading up to Tuesday’s midterm elections, the ideology has been embraced by some as the future of progressive politics and shunned by others as a dangerous notion that could destroy the American way…

If you go to 900 Franklin St. NE, you will find the Stone Straw Building. The seemingly incongruous name sounds like something from the “Three Little Pigs.” Though the building is made of bricks (not stone), it was made by straws: millions…

On Sunday, the National Gallery of Art will open a new exhibit dedicated to Gordon Parks, a famed photographer, musician, poet, and filmmaker who dedicated much of his career to documenting African-American life during Jim Crow,…

Providence Health System is sticking to its plan to shut down acute care in the District by Dec. 14, but CEO Keith Vander Kolk said he’ll commit to a conversation about extending that date amid D.C. Council efforts to keep it open longer.

DC Council Member Trayon White is a man caught in the middle of what has turned into the District’s most contentious political fight of 2018. On one side is Dionne Reeder, the at-large council candidate and White’s friend who supported his…

Metro has spent nearly $1.6 million defending the advertising policy that prohibits issue-oriented ads, newly released records show. The legal tab, as of Aug. 13, includes hours billed, fees and other costs resulting from legal actions…