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Showplace Icon is out at The Yards.

Howard University is continuing its strategy of redeveloping its properties with a new project on Georgia Avenue.

A Wednesday in the middle of January during a government shutdown is probably a better time than most to close Third Street NW and move an entire building.

Six years after the 1961 debut of “It’s Academic,” Washington’s high school quiz show, Giant Food signed on as its chief sponsor. Israel “Izzy” Cohen, owner of the supermarket chain, thought it was…

The people who have been calling the Washington region’s largest food bank this month sound different from before. More timid. More unsure. Less familiar with how the food bank system works.

Three rows of second-graders stand facing the front of the classroom. A speaker emits sounds. First, a door creaking. Then, footsteps thudding and a wolf howling, all followed by the unmistakable…

In the early 2000s, Frederick Uku found himself in D.C. on an expired student visa with no degree. He calls the decade he was undocumented in the U.S. the “Dark Years,” and points to one of his most…

The ongoing partial shutdown has stopped up the federal government’s payment of its water bills in Washington.

When sports gambling is formally legalized in Washington, fans will have the option to place bets in convenience stores, bars, restaurants or from their living room couches. But the most visible and…

On the heels of the 2018’s uptick in deadly violence, D.C. has recorded almost one killing for each day of the new year.

As the D.C. Council begins a new legislative session, some shuffling among committee chairs has occurred.

Theater J has named Jojo Ruf as its new managing director, filling the slot left last fall when longtime Theater J staffer Rebecca Ende was hired by Studio Theatre, a few blocks away. Ruf will start…

The D.C. Lottery is seeking to bypass the city's bidding process for vendors to operate a tech platform for sports wagering and, instead, extend its existing relationship with Intralot, a Greek…

The federal government owns a lot of sinks, faucets and toilets in the District of Columbia, where 195,000 government employees wash their hands, fill up their water bottles and flush their waste on a…

WASHINGTON — Good news for lovebirds: Marriage licenses will soon be issued in D.C. again.

Pour one out for this year’s St. Patrick’s Day parade in the District. The nonprofit group that organizes the annual event—the all-volunteer-run St. Patrick’s Parade Committee—says it is “distraught”…

Tiara Logan's last day of work as a security guard at the Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries in D.C. was Jan. 1. Before that, she had been on maternity leave since September after a high-risk…

Advisory Neighborhood Commissions are the most hyperlocal form of D.C. government—each commissioner serves about 2,000 people without any pay except for one big perk: a free parking pass. Now, more…

The development team behind The Parks, the overhaul of a 66-acre portion of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, has closed on construction financing and lined up its equity partners for the first two…

Local lawmakers passed a workaround while the marriage bureau at D.C. Superior Court remains closed