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"They’ve seen and walked into the units, but they just choose not to repair them."

News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton December 6, 2019 Contact: Jack Miller WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), who strongly supported House passage of the Voting Rights Advancement Act (H.R. 4),…

A controversy swirling around the Northern Bus Garage in Petworth has come to a head at multiple public meetings and residents are pointing fingers at WMATA and D.C. government officials.

Tensions in Brookland were running high this spring. Newer residents had started calling the police on children and teenagers after school as they were walking home and stopping by convenience stores — something most kids are prone to do. …

D.C. Public Schools received well-deserved praise for its recent scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a.k.a. “The Nation’s Report Card.” Of the 27 urban districts that took the test in 2019, DCPS improved the…

Some Verizon customers in Northwest Washington have been without service most of the week after a contractor for the company “inadvertently” cut cables in Georgetown, the company said.

Julia Flores has lived in a rent-controlled apartment in Columbia Heights since the 1990s — a small studio where she raised both her daughters.

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBY) will close its Chinatown location next year, a company spokesperson confirmed to the Washington Business Journal.

WASHINGTON – As the public demand for new museums increases, the Smithsonian Institution’s chief says his top priority is getting on top of a huge maintenance backlog at the world’s largest museum and research complex before he considers…

The Bike Rack, the Logan Circle bicycle shop that has been servicing the D.C. cycling community for over a decade, is joining the slew of other bike shops that have bit the dust recently. The shop on 14th and Q streets NW announced its…

Union Market and Ivy City, two of D.C.'s hottest growing neighborhoods, sit just one mile apart, but the New York Avenue roadway that connects them does not have the pedestrian or cycling accessibility to make it feel like a cohesive…

A D.C. employee who reviewed construction projects for the city admitted Friday that he was selling heroin and fentanyl outside his office, including drugs that led to a woman’s death.

She says she tried to go through the lobby with a wheelchair-bound relative, but the hotel staff sent her back up the elevator and down the stairs.

The International Square Food Court will shut down at the end of the month, joining the long list of eateries to close up shop in D.C.

Starting around 7:30 a.m Friday morning, an alliance of climate activists and social justice groups took to the streets in the area surrounding the World Bank, blocking traffic and demanding action to reduce fossil fuels.

When the U Street jazz club Bohemian Caverns closed its doors in 2016, fans, musicians, and neighbors lamented the loss of one of D.C.’s most legendary jazz haunts. Some feared the dissipation of Washington’s jazz community altogether, and…

Big professional services and consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has signed an equally big lease for Douglas Development and Brookfield Properties’ 655 New York Avenue NW, the biggest office redevelopment project in the District this…

34 states have government-level agencies for the deaf and hard of hearing. Washington, D.C., which is home to one of the nation's largest per-capita deaf populations, does not -- yet.

They discussed issues and ideas at an intense community meeting last night, but the D.C. government declined its invitation to attend.

Climate change protesters took to the District’s streets Friday morning, blocking roads around the World Bank headquarters and elsewhere in downtown Washington while disrupting the commute.