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The crowds are gone for now, but the cold wind is whipping the flags that remain on Black Lives Matter Plaza — rainbow ones, anti-Trump ones, American ones — marking an ongoing momentum on the last day of a calamitous year.

Charlie Lund, 82, spent four decades as an English professor in D.C. — a job that he adored. But at his core, those who knew him said, he had always been a student first.

The D.C. Department of Employment Services said Thursday that it expects to begin distributing additional unemployment benefits in January as part of new federal coronavirus relief legislation.

What happened in the arts scene in a year where museums, venues, theaters, and stages of all kinds were closed?

The District is soliciting bids to redevelop the Frank D. Reeves Center at the corner of 14th and U streets NW, where a new national headquarters of the NAACP is envisioned.

Larry Calhoun distinctly remembers August 9. What should otherwise have been just another weekend night was interrupted by word of a mass shooting at a block party in Southeast D.C.

The new year brings new laws into effect across the region: Starting Jan. 1, residents can no longer legally hold their cellphones to their ears while they drive in Virginia, sell foam peanuts in the District, or run in Maryland’s general…

This New Year’s, transportation agencies and companies want you to stay home. Metro won’t be running late-night hours for the holiday as it often has in the past, and Uber and Lyft are nixing their typical New Year’s promotions.

D.C. has begun accepting proposals to redevelop the Frank D. Reeves Center, on the northwest corner of 14th Street and U Street Northwest.

D.C. revenues could return to fiscal year 2019 levels by fiscal year 2022, as vaccines are deployed and the economy recovers.

Of course, COVID-19 looms large across this year’s annual Year in Review issue. From the shocking death toll, to the devastating impact on local businesses, to the cancellation of Pride, coronavirus upended all of our lives. Here are the…

At a press conference commemorating Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day on Dec. 21, leaders of the People for Fairness Coalition (PFFC) laid out their demands for D.C.: a $1.5 billion increase in spending on adding and maintaining affordable…

Mayor Muriel Bowser nominated her most recent political appointee to the Green Finance Authority Board (“Green Board”) based on the candidate’s bona fides in affordable housing and community development.

Vaccine rollout has moved slowly in the Washington region and nationwide as the year comes to a close, though officials stressed Wednesday that they were moving to pick up the pace.

Protests planned in support of President Trump on Jan. 6 are multiplying by the week.

The District has begun accepting proposals to develop the Franklin D. Reeves Center at 14th and U streets, city leaders announced Wednesday, the next step in a years-long process to transform the facility at the heart of a historic and…

With the new year just around the corner, some D.C.-area jurisdictions have new laws on the books.

Paramount Group Inc. (NYSE: PGRE) has completed the sale of 1899 Pennsylvania Ave. NW nearly 10 months after the office building went under contract — and for $12 million less than the original contract price.

Karim el-Amin, 42, took shelter Dec. 8 in his tent near Thomas Circle in Northwest Washington. Temperatures were turning colder that week, with lows hovering near freezing.

The Donohoe Cos. has picked up a new joint venture partner and landed $174 million in construction financing to push ahead its long-sought redevelopment of a Tenleytown office building once occupied by Fannie Mae.