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The District announced it is extending its dockless bike and scooter pilot program through the end of the year — with one new wrinkle. Starting in September, riders will have to lock dockless bikes to racks or street signs. More permanent…

Just hours after breaking ground on a $489 million project to transform the barren parking lots surrounding RFK Stadium into playing fields for the city’s children, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Wednesday left no doubt about the…

The charges that Phyllis Black outlines against her landlord in a sworn affidavit are sweeping and shocking. But if there’s one thing she wants him to know, it’s this: She isn’t leaving her home. In the nearly two years she’s lived at 711…

If only this house could talk. For 180 years the small, stone “miracle” has witnessed the passing of history on the southwest corner of 17th Street and what is now Constitution Avenue. Battered by time, nature, and neglect, the onetime…

FROM AFFORDABLE housing to Metro to the occasional water-supply glitch, the District has its share of issues and problems. It is our job to hold the city accountable on those subjects but, just now, we’d like to focus on the bigger picture:…

Curiosity led Vernesha Poindexter to walk outside when she heard the gunfire. She didn’t know then that 42 bullets had been fired down a nearby street in Southeast D.C. She didn’t know that at least eight of those bullets had hit a…

WASHINGTON — The District’s bright red fleet of Capital Bikeshare bikes will soon be joined by pedal-assist versions. D.C. Department of Transportation officials won’t comment publicly, but the social media account for the program has been…

The first red flags seemed obvious: Row after row of signatures written in the same handwriting. Some appeared twice. A few belonged to a rival candidate’s staffers. Now, three of the people listed as signature collectors for S. Kathryn…

As the D.C. Republican Party fields three candidates this November, the party announced a fundraiser that will feature Sean Spicer, the former press secretary for President Donald Trump.

For more than 70 years, a mansion on 16th Street has housed one of D.C.’s lesser-known art gems on its walls. Roberto Cueva del Rio’s Embassy murals line the elaborate staircase and three stories of the Mexican Cultural Institute of D.C.,…

The owners and occupants of a property in Northeast D.C. have violated city environmental laws repeatedly by spilling oil into neighborhood streets and threatening local waterways for the past 10 years, according to a lawsuit Attorney…

Last spring, EDENS-affiliate EAJ 1309 5th Street, LLC applied for a two-year extension for plans that would expand and construct a companion building to Union Market. Now, with the exit of development partner Great Gulf, plans may be…

NoMa has a name drawn from a buried piece of D.C.’s African American history for a new large park in the works. The new 2.5-acre park adjacent to the Metropolitan Branch Trail just north of the New York Avenue bridge in NoMa will be called…

"If there was a way to bring the team back to the city, she would find it," says the mayor's spokesperson.

Previously, in D.C.’s Startup Scene, I examined employment gains made by District startups across industry sectors. … In this article, I dig deeper by examining one potential barrier that may be in the way of startup employment…

The reasons why you can’t safely or legally swim in the District’s rivers could be resolved within the next several years — a concrete milestone for clean rivers which until recently seemed difficult to envision. This would open new outdoor…

One of a handful of low-rise, car-centric shopping centers remaining in the District is now being tapped for a redevelopment that will add new housing to Northeast D.C. Cedar Realty Trust announced Tuesday it acquired a 99-year lease with a…

At D.C. barbecue restaurant Hill Country, go ahead, get the spare ribs. Just don’t try to pay for them with spare change. That’s because the Texas-style barbecue market in Penn Quarter recently stopped accepting cash. Now, it’s plastic only…

WASHINGTON — The District provides plenty of good street-level sights. There are attention-grabbing monuments, fountains, and displays in store windows. Both locals and tourists alike, however, may not know there is a thriving rooftop…

The other day, Ehren Reynolds and his 4-year-old son, Theo, looked at a map of the Metro system, as they do each day during their commute to child care. “You can get on the Yellow and Green, the Orange, Silver and Blue,” Theo said, as he…