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In a couple of weeks, DC will join other jurisdictions which have implemented new regulatory systems in response to the short term rental market embodied in the rise of platform Airbnb.

“Southeast is nowhere for you to be trans. There’s no resources, there’s no help for you there,” Bela Muney, a trans woman and LGBTQ advocate, told DCist last December.

The National World War I Memorial slated for D.C.’s Pershing Park has received final approval from the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, five years after Congress authorized the memorial and its downtown site.

Officials will hold a meeting about the highly anticipated project next week

It’s not only the inside of the Washington Monument that’s getting an upgrade.

DC’s Comprehensive Plan sets the course for how the city will grow, and the Framework element sets the tone for the rest of this important planning document. Right now the DC Council is in the process of updating the Comp Plan, starting…

About a year after 20-year-old Carlos Sanchez-Martin died — the first person in D.C. to be killed while riding an electric scooter — local officials gathered at busy Dupont Circle to remind people about safety on roads and sidewalks.

Big residential plans are on the boards for one of Georgetown's most recognizable blocks.

Currently, one legal strategy for a suspect in the District accused of a violent crime, including murder, is to blame the victim’s identity as an LGBT person.

The city is also expanding the hours that the lanes will be in effect

At least four former teachers at the elite, private Maret School in Northwest D.C. are suspected of sexual misconduct or inappropriate behavior involving students between the 1970s and 2008, according to an independent investigation.

Over the summer, the District tested bus-only lanes downtown on H and I Streets in hopes of improving the speed and reliability of buses in one of the region’s busiest corridors.

Parking and gambling were among Republican fixations. Racism was top for Democrats.

At least four faculty members at an elite D.C. private school are suspected of sexually abusing students between 1975 and 2008, according to an internal investigation released Thursday evening by officials at the Maret School.

Starting Nov. 12, the hours of operation will be 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday

Temporary bus lanes on busy D.C. streets near the White House are here to stay and will have hours expanded, WTOP has learned.

While Democrats at the D.C. statehood hearing sought to make the proceedings about the more than 700,000 District residents without full voting rights, Republicans on the Oversight Committee were interested in focusing it on a handful of…

Washington, D.C. leaders made their case for statehood at the first U.S. House of Representatives hearing on the issue in 25 years, while Republicans raised concerns about corruption and fiscal stability.

House Democrats on Thursday held the first hearing in 26 years to consider making the District the 51st state, but the new proposal raised eyebrows from some who were troubled that the state lines would cut up Pennsylvania Avenue, moving…

700,000 people can’t vote, but Thomas Massie has a conspiracy theory about parking spaces.