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After more than a year of legal challenges, the DC Court of Appeals ruled Thursday to uphold a local zoning board's approval of a plan to develop a homeless shelter in Ward 3. The decision paves the way for D.C.'s Department of General…

The District is searching for organizations to create and run urban farms at two locations in Kingman Park and Brightwood Park. Totaling more than 20,000 square feet, the parcels are currently vacant. Once redeveloped, they would be managed…

Washington’s roster of Whole Foods expanded from four to five this morning, as the Amazon-owned grocer opened a new location in Navy Yard—its first-ever in Southeast DC. More than a grocery, the market hopes to draw in neighborhood business…

D.C. developers have spent years churning out homogeneous office buildings, maximizing the height under the city's zoning limit and creating all-glass exteriors to bring in light, but the latest projects have begun to differentiate…

There is a pattern of racial disparity in educational opportunity, attainment and school discipline practices in the Washington region, according to 2015-16 school year data recently released by the U.S. Department of Education and…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump was more deeply involved than the White House has indicated in a decision to keep the FBI headquarters in D.C., according to new documents released Thursday by Democratic members of a House oversight…

Yet more evidence has emerged that President Donald Trump was involved in the FBI's decision to scrap its original plan to find a different home for its new agency headquarters, instead opting to raze the crumbling, "functionally obsolete"…

Try saying it — the Doritos March on Washington for Freedom. The Red Bull Rally for Refugee Rights! How about the Stayfree Protest for Women? All wrong. But that’s where we’re headed if yet another piece of the American experiment goes to…

WASHINGTON — It’s rare for Congressional Cemetery to open its iron gates to visitors after dark. But for four days this month, the National Historic Landmark is doing just that — all for a little Halloween fun. On Oct. 19, 20, 26 and 27,…

WASHINGTON — Nearly two years before he would begin his presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump arrived in Washington to show off his plans for a luxury hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue under a deal he had reached to lease the site from the…

Applications from people vying to become D.C.’s first-ever nightlife director have been pouring into Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s office from across the country and around the world. Just weeks into the search, the mayor’s office said it has…

WASHINGTON — Across the Metro system, some tunnels are completely dark, which could make emergency evacuations difficult. Whack-a-mole efforts to contain water leaks are only partially making progress with some steady flows remaining, and…

Ward 8 Council member Trayon White recently convened a State of the Ward Summit during which citizens from all corners of Southeast, not White, did most of the talking, making known their concerns about government response, senior services,…

Howard University has received $500,000 from the National Park Service (NPS) Foundation to implement handicap accessibility renovations at Founders Library. Eighteen institutions received a total of $8.6 million in grant funding to support…

Meredith Kinner dashes across Rhode Island Avenue, Northeast, to perform a weekly ritual familiar to many D.C. residents — moving the car for street cleaning. It’s annoying and it can be hard to find parking, but Kinner knows there’s a…

If you ever wanted to go to a bar that serves pizza and hosts TEDTalks, this is probably your best opportunity. Local chain &pizza and event programmer Broccoli City are collaborating to open a bar in Shaw that wants to be a gathering…

The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) voted 29-2 Wednesday to approve Visualize 2045 — a regional plan for $291 billion worth of projects to optimize transportation for the additional 1.2 million people projected to live…

D.C. Council members ramped up pressure on Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) to halt the controversial closure of a hospital in Northeast Washington, unanimously approving legislation this week that empowers her administration to force hospitals…

The District’s public school system is partnering with Bard College in New York to open a school next fall that will allow students to graduate from high school with a two-year college associate degree. The city hopes a liberal arts college…

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced a series of lawsuits on Wednesday targeting the owners and managers of buildings in wards 7 and 8 for issues ranging from building neglect—resulting in vermin and mold, among other conditions—to a…