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Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White has asked Jack Evans, Ward 2 Councilmember and chairman of the Council's finance and revenue committee, not to mark up a bill that would divert some $60 million…

One of Capitol Hill’s most-beloved used bookstores is shuttering after 17 years consigning rare books, giving out dog treats to neighborhood pups, and serving afternoon tea for a loyal band of local…

Former director Melinda Bolling and three high level employees leave behind a FOIA lawsuit and lingering problems.

For a long time, the Anacostia River didn’t even have a name. It was just the Eastern Branch, the other, less promising section of Washington, D.C.’s better known and more distinguished river, the…

WASHINGTON -- A D.C. high school with an historic past will soon get a new building in the heart of the city, but not without some controversy.

The District has struggled to recruit candidates to fill the city’s top education job, which has sat vacant nine months, according to a top elected official.

WASHINGTON — D.C. is set to see a surge in dockless scooters and bike-share bicycles after a dozen companies applied for the city’s new permits.

The historic Takoma Theatre, redeveloped by Rock Creek Property Group and soon home to a satellite clinic for Children’s National Hospital, has signed two retail tenants: Lost Sock Roasters, a…

A unanimous D.C. Council gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a major climate change legislation with some last-minute revisions that worry environmentalists.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to legislation that would move the District’s power grid to entirely renewable energy sources by 2032, a goal that places the city in the vanguard…

The effort is the most ambitious renewable energy goal of any city or state in the country.

For the first time in human history, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities, a shift that is resulting in new challenges. The Smithsonian Institution’s Anacostia Community Museum,…

One Hecht of a redevelopment: Brewers and distillers have moved into Ivy City and brought life to the once-sleepy northeast neighborhood. A massive redevelopment project on the New York Avenue…

Earlier this month, D.C.’s Office of the State Superintendent (OSSE) quietly released an update on the school residency fraud case at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts.

A neighborhood advisory panel in Washington that typically focuses on liquor license applications and other local concerns is inserting itself into the international furor prompted by the murder of…

The Scottish Rite Masonic temple in Dupont Circle plans to build apartments on some empty space behind its building. One element of the project is two levels of apartments below the ground level. This…

The Initiative 77 chess match continues. 

14th Street in Columbia Heights could get bus lanes, if a proposal from the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) becomes reality. The plans are in the early stages, and agency and neighborhood…

It’s 4 p.m. on Thanksgiving Eve when DC Brau opens up its taproom. Customers trickle in, grabbing six-packs out of the fridge in the corner or getting growlers of beer filled to take home for the…

Urgent climate change warnings are piling up: just last week, the federal government released its latest, most alarming National Climate Assessment.