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Renovations to the boarded-up Chesapeake House — a historic but empty building in the southwest corner of Tenleytown’s Fort Reno Park — should be completed by 2020, National Park Service officials told community members at a recent meeting…

A Congress Heights landlord sparred with attorneys for the District of Columbia in Superior Court this month over whether a judge should drop a requirement that the landlord pay for renovation of a dilapidated apartment complex in…

Patrick Kennedy not only backed Jack Evans in his 2016 re-election bid for the Ward 2 seat the DC Council member has held since 1991 — he chaired the campaign. But with Evans’ electoral fortunes having taken an uncertain turn amid ethics…

A dozen students at Tenleytown’s Woodrow Wilson High School were playing cards at a high-top table and relaxing on easy chairs in the senior lounge while on break between classes. Alex Wilson, the school’s director of academic development,…

Milford Washington, 53, spent hours in the law library during the 10 years he was in a Virginia prison. He studied his own case and those of his fellow inmates, preparing himself to enter the DC job market. He spent so much time in the…

Ward 3 residents and the District government struck a deal Wednesday to alter final details for the area’s family homeless shelter, one of six such facilities now open or under construction as replacements for the now-closed DC General…