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Thomas Hollowell was a grandfather, a husband and a Smithsonian museum employee. And during the Thursday evening rush hour, his grandchildren, wife, co-workers, friends and strangers — more than 250 in all — rode their bikes from Farragut…

D.C. lawmakers have long complained that residents of the nation’s capital pay federal taxes and serve in the military yet are denied self-governance because they lack a vote in Congress. But on Tuesday, the D.C. Council reduced even the…

In an unprecedented move, a D.C. developer padlocked long time business, including a daycare, with just a one day notice on Thursday. The sudden shutdown came just four months after 1100 Eastern LLC, a division of Neighborhood Development…

When thinking about what she may have lost in the fire that destroyed much of her apartment building, Ruth Rorls’s mind goes straight to the box on the tall bookshelf. It contains an American flag given to her in 2002 after the death of her…

The D.C. Council Judiciary Committee unanimously voted Thursday to advance a bill that would decriminalize fare evasion on Metro, reducing the possible penalty to a $50 fine. The bill was originally introduced in June 2017 by eight…

Earlier this year, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine negotiated that Sanford Capital would divest its real estate holdings in the District by December and stay out of the city for the next seven years. The consent order, voluntarily agreed…

In what may have been their final meeting, members of Metro’s Rider Advisory Council say their voices are invaluable and will fight the Metro board’s anticipated decision to eliminate the volunteer group. Six of eight Metro board members…

A recently released study of Census data tracks where upward mobility is most likely to be enjoyed by a child born into various circumstances. For the District of Columbia, some of those results may be surprising. Today, UrbanTurf explores…

On Tuesday, D.C. officials will ceremonially début a new family homeless shelter at 5004 D St. SE in Marshall Heights as part of the plan to close and replace the derelict D.C. General shelter. The soon-to-open facility will house 35…

Two large developments planned in D.C. could get a significant financial boost with the approval of two pieces of recently introduced legislation that would provide the projects with more than $100 million in tax-increment financing.

After Areeg Abu El Hawa and a friend were hit by a car while in a Tenleytown crosswalk, all she could think about was her suddenly numb arm. She is studying medicine with dreams of being a surgeon. After being sent airborne by a car as she…

Sexist slurs referring to female dogs and prostitutes, with a few letters replaced by asterisks. Crude references to bodies and sex. Cracks about racial and ethnic groups. Those were some of the glaring problems with the initial version of…

On the day that Christine Blasey Ford described her alleged sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh and testified about his “uproarious laughter,” Jessica Raven was compelled to step up in a way she’d never expected. At…

Just four months after District voters approved an initiative to raise the minimum wage for tipped workers, the D.C. Council voted to overturn it. It might seem like an odd fate for Initiative 77, which got 55 percent of the popular vote in…

Ronald Mason, president of the University of the District of Columbia, is once again the highest-paid person on the District payroll, according to data provided by the city and compiled by the Washington Business Journal. With a 2018 salary…

Metro’s leaders have said publicly that they have no clear solution to the system’s ridership decline, but an internal document dated May of this year shows otherwise; it lays out a detailed plan for increasing riders on the nation’s…

The Coalition for Smarter Growth, a pro-transit group that backed Metro’s dedicated funding push, said the time has come to increase service.

Among Karl A. Racine’s duties as the District’s attorney general, prosecuting crimes committed by juveniles can be the most challenging — especially sex offenses. As we all learned after watching last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee…

Just when you thought DC’s boom of celebrity chef-driven steakhouses was waning, here’s another: Cut by Wolfgang Puck. The “contemporary twist on the classic steakhouse” will open inside Georgetown’s Rosewood hotel in Spring 2019. In…

Another planned-unit development in DC bites the dust. Last month, the development team behind the PUD intended to replace the Rhode Island Avenue Shopping Center (map) requested that the Zoning Commission "extinguish" the approved plans…