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Gay education advocate Allister Chang has won his race for a seat on the D.C. State Board of Education for Ward 2, becoming the only one of six openly gay candidates running in Tuesday’s D.C. election to emerge as a winner for seats on the…

Like many people, Juan Luis Salazar Cano and Stefanie Fabrico were at home watching election results roll in last night. Then, around 7 p.m., Salazar Cano saw some unusual activity on the cameras that watch over his South Manor Park coffee…

The Line D.C. hotel in Adams Morgan has officially begun receiving its property tax abatement nearly three years after the hotel opened and a decade after the abatement was passed.

Women will be the majority on the D.C. Council, and Mayor Muriel Bowser said Wednesday the news “makes me very happy.”

Following a packed day of voting and a night of protests, and amid a still-undecided presidential election, activists continue to plan protests around the D.C. region.

Friends and family of the late Karon Hylton-Brown said they’re not slowing down their protests until the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) follows through on a set of institutional changes for the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)…

Two weeks ago, UrbanTurf reported on a proposal to replace a 16th Street church annex with 78 apartments. Now, we are getting the first look at how that infill building may take shape.

Local business leaders are breathing a sigh of relief over the results of the at-large D.C. Council race, celebrating the apparent defeat of Democratic Socialist-endorsed Ed Lazere in favor of the more moderate Christina Henderson.

A majority of the D.C. Council will be women for the first time in more than 20 years, and a majority will be Black for the first time since 2012, after voters chose a young mother who calls herself a “pragmatic progressive” from a field…

WeWork has agreed to drop its lawsuit against The Meridian Group over nearly $7 million in tenant improvement costs tied to the coworking space provider's lease at 700 K St. NW in the District.

The streets outside the White House were quiet early Wednesday, as election results continued to come in — and D.C., like the rest of the nation, seemed to hold its breath.

Five months after receiving approval from the Historic Preservation Review Board (HPRB) for a residential-over-retail concept, raze permits have been filed for a laundromat located on a main corridor in the Mount Pleasant Historic…

Christina Henderson is "cautiously optimistic" after seeing the preliminary results. She would be the third millennial woman elected to the D.C. Council in 2020.

People gathered around Black Lives Matter Plaza on Tuesday, rallying and waiting for election results throughout the evening. Groups such as Shutdown DC and Black Lives Matter DC encouraged people to come out, although the event was not a…

As ballots were being counted across the country Tuesday night, hundreds of people gathered outside the White House for what one hoped would become “a going-away party” for President Trump.

Christina Henderson, a former staffer for Councilmember David Grosso, is leading the pack to win one of two open At-:arge seats on the D.C. Council.

To some, it might feel like D-Day, but it’s definitely E-Day: Voting in 2020 election has wrapped in D.C. Results are coming in.

Hundreds of people are gathered in downtown D.C. on election night as local and national results continue to roll in. Crowds are concentrated at Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House and at McPherson Square, where at least 100…

The Ward 8 State Board of Education member and D.C. Council at-large is fighting for recognition in a crowded field.

A D.C. ballot initiative to decriminalize the use of magic mushrooms and other psychedelic substances had a commanding lead Tuesday after a months-long campaign in which supporters collected signatures during the height of the coronavirus…