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The D.C. Council on Thursday considered legislation that would ban cashless, brick-and-mortar businesses in an effort to make the city less vulnerable to cyberattacks and more friendly to residents without banking or credit cards.

Encampments Near Garfield Park Spark Heated Discussion at ANC 6B

The chairman of the D.C. Council’s public safety committee is responding to reports that a group of Metro Transit police officers made a game out of arresting people.

If you thought the Ward 2 D.C. Council race was contested enough, think again. Brooke Pinto, a 27-year-old Logan Circle resident who most recently worked as a lawyer for the District government, is running as a Democrat for the seat…

The food hall trend continues to sweep the D.C. market, with the latest concept coming to a Foggy Bottom redevelopment project.

In Jaunary, the dramatic collapse of a building under construction at 1102 Staples Street NE (map) was captured on video, inspiring speculation about what triggered the event and relief for the minimal injuries to workers and passers-by…

Ivy City is now home to The Lane, a new play space and social gathering spot targeting parents raising children in the city.

President Donald Trump's budget for the upcoming fiscal year excluded any funding for a new FBI headquarters as the prospect remains bogged down by unresolved questions including the extent of the White House's involvement in the decision…

Between Apple Pay, Square and technology that turns our hands into credit cards, there are more ways to buy a sandwich than ever before. But retailers’ embrace of electronic payments threatens to leave many Washingtonians behind.

Aetna Inc. is protesting the District’s award of a contract to CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield for D.C. employees' health insurance coverage.

An interview with Brandi Thompson Summers, whose recent book traces the gentrification of H Street

Over the last several days, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s presidential campaign has been scrambling to contain a ballooning scandal related to a 2015 audio clip that surfaced online this week, in which the Democratic…

David Rubenstein is at it again.

“We knew that baby was in trouble,” she said, turtle-hunched inside her jacket against the rain as she waited for the D6 bus with a knot of other women who live in a motel on one of the District’s ugliest stretches of street. “It’s Relisha…

Within the fourth floor of the John A. Wilson Building, between D.C. councilmembers’ offices and meeting rooms, is a curiously curated collection of 17 photographs that comes courtesy of the city’s first art museum.

A new senior affordable housing project breaking ground soon in Northwest D.C. will be named in honor of the D.C. Housing Finance Agency chairman who died last month at 51.

Metro must fix inadequate, inconsistent or outdated track safety and maintenance policies that lead to some track workers essentially winging it and others skipping key maintenance or inspection procedures, the first-ever audit from the…

Shirley Rivens Smith lives in the same Northeast D.C. house her mother moved into in 1956, and she said that when she was growing up, the neighborhood was a haven, a community.

An eighth candidate has entered the Democratic primary for Ward 2 D.C. Council seat vacated by Jack Evans, who resigned from the council last month before he could be expelled for repeated ethics violations.

The D.C. Council on Wednesday questioned decisions by the city’s ethics and elections agencies following a year of scandals that resulted in an expensive special election and a disgraced former lawmaker using taxpayer dollars to fund his…