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Philadelphia-based incubator chain 1776 has officially announced that its D.C. campus — which has been operating since August — is open.

Early last year, UrbanTurf reported on the potential routes and stations for the Northeast Maglev train, which would facilitate travel between DC and Baltimore in 15 minutes. Now, as the Federal Railroad Administration and Maryland…

A 3-year-old girl with autism allegedly was force-fed by a teacher at school last week. The alleged abuse happened at School Within School @ Goding in Northeast D.C.

Tens of thousands of Washingtonians have criminal records getting in the way of jobs and housing, and many of them never even committed a crime.

A local teacher had an extra ticket to attend Michelle Obama’s book signing at Politics and Prose, so he took one of her biggest fans—a fifth grade student.

An ad hoc committee of the D.C. Council on Tuesday questioned the lawyers who investigated and reported on how council member Jack Evans‘ private consulting firm influenced his decisions as a public official.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine has sued San Francisco food delivery company DoorDash over a controversial tipping policy it abandoned last summer after a public outcry.

The attorneys who completed an investigation into alleged ethics violations by D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) told a Council committee on Tuesday that there was little question that he broke the rules — but they refused to…

A group of D.C. Council members introduced a bill Tuesday designed to improve compliance with a District law that requires companies with large public contracts to subcontract some work to small local businesses.

Two outside lawyers hired by the D.C. Council to conduct an investigation of council member Jack Evans went before the ad hoc committee Tuesday to take questions about their report, which found numerous violations of ethics rules.

In an unprecedented event, D.C. Council members on Tuesday grappled publicly with an ethics investigation into their longest-serving colleague, council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2).

To better understand what the fight over bike lanes in the District is about, it apparently helps to visit Copenhagen. The capital of Denmark, population 800,000, has the kind of bicycle “highway” system that some city leaders are hoping…

The District’s mental health agency acknowledged Tuesday that it failed to properly monitor a discharged psychiatric patient with a homicidal history before he allegedly killed a neighbor in an unprovoked shooting in March. But the agency…

Following an eight-month investigation by his office, D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine filed a lawsuit Tuesday against DoorDash, accusing America’s largest food-delivery service of pocketing millions of dollars in workers’ tips and…

Vehicles with multiple tickets for excessive speeding and red-light running could be impounded or booted under a new bill from D.C. Council member Elissa Silverman (I-At Large). Owners will only get their vehicle back by taking a reckless…

The Monumental Sports and Entertainment Foundation opened three newly refurbished rec courts Tuesday at the Ferebee Hope Recreation Center in Ward 8 in the District.

After a certain number of high-risk violations, their vehicles would be impounded

A federal program that funneled millions of dollars into the District’s richest neighborhoods at the expense of poorer areas it was created to help used unadjusted and outdated data for years that failed to capture the city’s rapid…

While consumers can tip gig economy workers like rideshare drivers and food deliverers through their respective apps, it’s not always clear that the money is making its way to workers directly in the same way, say, a $5 bill would.

Assistant City Administrator Says District Encourages Aviation Company to Look at Private and Federal Land