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After years of neglect, four historic homes in Anacostia are about to see new life as a local historic preservation nonprofit finalizes plans for their restoration. The L'Enfant Trust acquired the…

A beleaguered Brookland apartment complex and the local regulatory agency tasked with monitoring it are the focus of a new report published Monday morning by the Office of the D.C. Auditor. In the…

D.C. Fire and EMS officials found positive signs in the first 90 days of a $1 million nursing phone line at the 911 call center, but have yet to see big dividends in one of the program’s intended…

WASHINGTON — D.C. Fire and EMS crews are working over the weekend to secure the Arthur Capper Senior building, a Southeast D.C. senior housing complex that caught fire Wednesday, displacing around 160…

The basketball games haven’t begun, the concerts have yet to be played, but District resident Latreasa Woodson already was excited about what the opening of the Entertainment and Sports Arena holds…

There are aspirations. And there are political realities. On Friday, the Washington area’s top transportation planners offered their ideas for how to handle both. Riffing off a federal requirement…

UDC is in negotiations with Bernstein Management Corporation that could give the university control of the office and retail space at 4250 Connecticut Avenue. Troy Lemaile-Stovall, UDC’s chief…

WASHINGTON — Police have identified the man who was struck Friday morning while on an electric scooter in Dupont Circle and later died. Carlos Sanchez-Martin, 20, of Silver Spring, Maryland, was…

Arrests in the District for public use of marijuana will result in those who qualify receiving a citation, rather than being taken into custody, the city’s mayor and police chief announced Friday. …

Taylor Gourmet will close all 17 of its DC-area stores after Sunday, September 23. Friday is the last day for the hoagie chain’s two Chicago stores. The closures come as Connecticut-based private…

A large apartment complex that caught fire Wednesday remains so unstable that investigators have been unable to enter and determine what went wrong inside, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser said Friday during a…

WASHINGTON – An effort to establish a Vietnam War education center on the National Mall was abandoned Friday after 17 years of planning and $23 million in donations already spent. The board of…

It’s been eleven years since the D.C. Council approved a historic transfer of power. Lawmakers gave then-Mayor Adrian Fenty control over the state superintendent’s office and the troubled…

District Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) is going all out with her effort to take down D.C. Council member Elissa Silverman (I-At Large) at the polls in November. It’s not going to be a pretty thing to…

When anything goes wrong in a city, policymakers all too often just want to move black people around, asserted Mindy Fullilove, a clinical psychiatrist at the New School, to an audience at a 2015…

In 2010, the District passed legislation mandating standards for physical education in schools. Unfortunately, many D.C. schools have failed to meet those standards because of time and space…

Right around this time last year, we first got to know Anthony* as a charismatic second grader who really liked to tell tales. Tall ones. One of the stories he liked to tell was about a shark in his…

You could still smell the evidence Thursday morning of what happens when fire alarms do not work. Residents of a seniors housing complex on the edge of the Capitol Hill-Navy Yard neighborhoods learned…

On Thursday afternoon, nearly 24 hours after the fire began at the Arthur Capper Senior Housing complex (900 Fifth St. SE), a strong smell of smoke still hung in the air. Fire hoses lay limp around…

In a contentious hearing on Tuesday, four D.C. councilmembers pressed the mayor’s education deputy and the Urban Institute’s education policy director to not undermine the legislative branch as it…