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Union employees of D.C.-area Safeway grocery stores could strike as soon as next month as contract negotiations with Safeway parent company Albertsons have reached an impasse, according to United Food and Commercials Workers Local 400.

Thousands of Safeway workers are ready to strike if they don’t get what they consider a fair contract by March 5. If a deal isn’t reached, Safeway stores across the D.C. area could be forced to close.

After more than three months of renovations to its colossal Great Hall, the National Building Museum in Penn Quarter will reopen on March 13, museum officials said Wednesday.

The union representing thousands of Giant and Safeway workers in the region has announced that it reached a tentative contract agreement with Giant late Tuesday night, after more than five months of negotiations. Marc Federici, president…

D.C.’s homegrown music genre, go-go, is about to become the official music of the District.

Representation matters. If it didn’t, those in the seat of power wouldn’t fight so hard to keep others out. We have seen first-hand what it can do, and what it means to have it be taken away.

The District expects to begin work in the spring on the reconstruction of Franklin Park, a National Park Service-owned square block of downtown D.C. that has fallen into disrepair — but one that city officials have long envisioned as a…

Warmer weather has left some with a feeling that spring could be coming to the D.C. region weeks ahead of schedule — and with March around the corner, all eyes are on the National Mall’s beloved cherry blossoms.

“We’re just trying to be somewhere major and bring that Chocolate City feel back to the D.C. area."

Yolanda Pinkney said her family has been trapped in a mold-infested home for years. Now, her daughter has asthma that won't go away.

On any given day, about 120 traffic cameras are operating in the District, an area little more than 68 square miles, giving the city one of the highest concentrations of Automated Traffic Enforcement devices, or ATE's, in the country.

Lawrence Foster lives with his daughter in a three-story rowhouse in Southeast Washington, D.C. The two of them mostly keep to the top two floors of the house, and for a long time, the basement has been unfinished and hardly used. A few…

The National Building Museum laid off 8% of its staff in January to help alleviate financial issues exacerbated by the museum’s temporary closure.

A Georgetown University coach who had a heart attack during football practice is now sharing his perspective after the near-death experience.

In 1919, a five-story luxury hotel called the Whitelaw opened in the District. Built by black people for black people, the hotel was an elegant response to the entrenchment of racial segregation under President Woodrow Wilson.

At-large Councilmember Robert White introduced a bill on Tuesday imposing stricter standards on the city to test and remediate publicly-owned playgrounds for hazardous materials like lead. The bill comes in the wake of city analyses last…

Western Market, yet another D.C. food hall, is slated to open in the once-struggling interior mall in Foggy Bottom next fall, according to the market’s Facebook page.

The signing will happen at Culture House, with a celebratory concert to follow.

A pair of filmmakers who document abandoned buildings and sites have released a video of their visit to Spingarn High School, a D.C. public school with a rich African American history that was closed in 2013.

Wood, 83, of Washington, D.C., passed away February 3 from natural causes.