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If Taylor Swift has inspired you to register to vote, the time is nigh in the District. The main deadline for registering to cast a ballot in the general election scheduled for Nov. 6 is next Tuesday, Oct. 16, according to the D.C. Board of…

The District would adopt one of the nation’s most aggressive plans to cut carbon emissions, aiming to use entirely renewable sources of energy for the city’s power grid just 14 years from now, under new legislation proposed by five D.C.…

A D.C. Council committee is scheduled to hear public testimony on Wednesday about the plan to end acute-care services at Providence Hospital in northeast Washington, and how the closure will affect residents in the eastern part of the…

DC's Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA) is designed to help tenants in multi-family apartment building stay put if their landlord decides to sell the property. So why is TOPA not working for tenants in several buildings put up for…

This spring, UrbanTurf reported on plans in the works for a residential building on the Masonic Temple-owned lot at 15th Street and S Street NW (map). Now, we're getting our first look at the by-right project. Perseus TDC has filed an…

Anders Pedersen, aka @DCSpokes, is the Batman of bike lanes. Pedersen and a slew of other District cyclists have taken it upon themselves to photograph, Tweet, report and talk to drivers who block bike lanes. It may seem like a small,…

WASHINGTON — Metro does not plan to raise fares next year, but it also does not necessarily plan to increase service, even as it hopes riders come flooding back to the system. Under previous practice, Metro would have raised fares next…

On a recent morning in the empty dining room of Equinox Restaurant, co-owner Ellen Kassoff Gray and her managers were sipping coffee and hashing out a plan of action in case protesters were to confront a customer in the high-end restaurant…

A new subsidy program in D.C. would give recipients a flat payment to help them make rent–and use the leftover money for whatever else they need.

Tenants could be spared from larger-than-expected rent increases under new legislation the DC Council is considering. Councilmember Anita Bonds (D-At Large) introduced a pair of bills that would update how rent increases are determined…

The nation’s capital has been breeding progressive voters for so long that when real Republicans turn up on a ballot, social and fiscal conservatives think RINO and Democrats look for candidates who are designated by a “D” or “independent.”

A recreational mapmaker has received a grant from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities to compile a meticulous anthology of all the tunnels in the District — subway and freight rail tunnels, pedestrian passageways, underground…

A former top aide to D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) has agreed to pay $3,000 to settle an ethics investigation into her use of government staff for babysitting. Former deputy mayor Courtney Snowden, as part of a written agreement with the…

It costs only a few dollars to ride Metro’s trains or buses, but it can cost up to $300 and 10 days of jail time to do so without paying the proper fare. Those penalties may soon change. Last week, District legislators advanced a bill…

What began in 1986 as a group of drag queens making a spontaneous drunken sprint between a bar and a steakhouse has become one of the District's most iconic community events. And starting this year, the annual 17th Street High Heel Race is…

Roughly 20,000 low-income D.C. residents are not taking advantage of a tax credit that could reap them thousands of dollars every year. It’s called the Earned Income Tax Credit, and many people don’t even know it exists.

Peggy Cooper Cafritz’s support for the Duke Ellington School of the Arts went beyond her checkbook. She attended events at the school she co-founded, purchased artwork by its faculty and students and hosted dinners at her home to nurture a…

When Seng Luangrath was 12 and living in a refugee camp in Thailand, the trauma of exile was still fresh. She had grown up in neighboring Laos in a multigenerational household with a grandmother who taught her to cook sticky rice and other…

WASHINGTON — One of the sponsors of a bill allowing for sports betting in D.C. said that he has the numbers to advance it to the next step. D.C. Councilman Jack Evans, a Democrat who represents Ward 2, said that he is “very confident” he…

WASHINGTON — D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Friday that the District will no longer charge sales tax on feminine hygiene products effective as of Monday, Oct. 1. In her tweet posted Friday afternoon, she wrote, “Because feminine hygiene…