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A 96-year-old woman died on Tuesday night after a fire overtook the first floor of her two-story row house in Shaw. The next day, Ward 5 Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie sent a letter to D.C.’s fire…

EYA Senior Vice President Aakash Thakkar, a residential developer who lives in a single-family home in Upper Northwest D.C., says that type of housing is far too common and the high-income area needs…

Urban planning nerds who are anxious to see what local lawmakers are going to do to the District’s Comprehensive Plan for development and growth will have to wait a little longer.

December marks the federal deadline for states across the country to release their new school rating systems, designed to bring transparency to measures of school quality. Both Maryland and D.C.…

You can put your money on this: future elections in D.C. will look very different than the ones from the past. And it comes down to money.

Two interactive and Instagram-ready light installations have hit the Yards Park boardwalk to brighten cold nights through early 2019.

Just weeks ago, demolition began at the Sursum Corda Housing Cooperative, a 148-townhouse lower-income community in DC. Now, UrbanTurf can provide a first look at the redevelopment plans for the site.

As UrbanTurf reported earlier this year, the DC area is facing a housing shortage that will necessitate production of over 25,000 additional housing units annually. Now, it is about to get harder to…

Early one evening in October, Rebecca Levine, a 27-year-old law student, was headed down the escalator at the Gallery Place Metro station when she noticed that a man riding ahead of her kept turning…

WASHINGTON — Streetlights can make streets and alleys safe but, for some D.C. residents, some new bright lights are also keeping them up at night.

The street outside NASA headquarters could soon be named for the pioneering black women scientists depicted in the film "Hidden Figures."

A D.C. man once wrongfully incarcerated for murder has been awarded a scholarship to the prestigious University of Oxford in England.

Within a matter of weeks, the D.C. Council will likely approve legislation tasking the DC Office on Aging (DCOA) with creating and implementing a decadelong strategy to assess and improve various…

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A D.C. man has agreed to settle a lawsuit against a Metropolitan Police Department officer over an unconstitutional and “exceedingly invasive” anal search during a stop-and-frisk…

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The District could become the second city in the U.S. to ban conversion therapy for some individuals over the age of 18 if a bill passed by the city council Tuesday night receives…

A D.C. man who says he was intrusively patted down by a police officer last year has settled his lawsuit against the officer for an undisclosed amount of money, the ACLU of D.C. announced on Thursday.…

Genet Amare, an official with the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, has filed a whistleblower lawsuit in Superior Court that -- if its allegations are proved -- gives a rare window on a…

George Washington University Hospital said that it “cannot and will not be involved” in a deal with D.C. to operate a planned new Southeast D.C. hospital unless D.C. Council removes two amendments…

After over a decade on the District's roster of parcels ripe for development, we are finally getting a look at what could potentially be constructed at 2 Patterson Street NE (map).

There’s something new on Seventh Street NW this week, and it’s not just the line outside the Christmas bar. Look down: The sidewalk bears a few plaques that honor musicians in the Howard Theatre Walk…