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WASHINGTON — Several D.C. tax rates change effective Oct. 1, coinciding with the start of the District’s 2019 fiscal year.

Fort Totten is getting a lot of attention from developers this year, and now an older project is picking up where it left off, albeit with a very eye-catching detail. The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz…

The Smithsonian Institution says it will submit a “revised project later this fall”

WASHINGTON — Hours after Friday’s crash between two fire engines responding to an apartment fire, D.C.’s fire chief has ordered a change in protocol to lessen the chance of apparatus colliding on the…

Two centuries before Georgetown was entertaining the notion of $1,500/square-foot condos, it was an industrial port town where the brick streets and alley dwellings were frowned upon and enslaved and…

WASHINGTON — Pepco is defending plans to build an electrical substation near a school in D.C.’s Mt. Vernon neighborhood, on a lot currently hosting a community garden.

The D.C. Auditor’s office says the District’s principals are the most stressed in the nation, and the policy of only giving school leaders one-year contracts is largely to blame. The report,…

The District has issued a stop-work order on the $50 million redevelopment of the Franklin School, a publicly owned historic building downtown that developers are transforming into the city’s…

It was a shocking crime in a wealthy Washington, D.C., neighborhood. Firefighters responded to a 911 call for a house on fire, but inside they found the bodies of three members of the Savopoulos…

WASHINGTON - The personal information for 2,000 homeless D.C. students was mistakenly published online and accessible for six months, school officials said. According to D.C. Public Schools, the…

On Sept. 26, District officials will cut the ribbon on the first new family homeless shelter to open as a replacement for the derelict D.C. General shelter, which is slated to close this fall. Mayor…

Public schedules of politicians can be mundane. It’s not uncommon for a daily item to read, “There are no public events scheduled.” And no politician is going to disclose secret, questionable, or…

While Mayor Muriel Bowser has made it clear that she wants the District to once again house a football team within the city, she faces at least as much competition as the NFC East. Washington's…

A transgender woman has dropped a discrimination complaint against a downtown D.C. restaurant that forced her to leave its premises in June because she used the women’s restroom after it agreed to…

Our beloved RFK has had its “glory days.” It is time for its home-going — not homecoming.

A 7-year-old girl was pulled unconscious from the bottom of a crowded District pool Monday by another swimmer and had to be resuscitated by pool staff members, said officials and witnesses. The…

WASHINGTON — The first phase of the District Department of Transportation’s work on the I-295 interchange with Malcolm X Avenue Southeast starts on Tuesday, Sept. 4. The project will take at least…

As part of an effort to call attention to a persistent crime, D.C. police recently surveyed more than 300 cars on Capitol Hill and in nearby neighborhoods, finding a large proportion with valuables in…

D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine is suing a Florida-based electrical contractor that has worked on some of the city’s most high-profile construction projects, saying the company is at the heart of…

A man scolded the archbishop of Washington in church Sunday morning before storming out as the archbishop asked parishioners to keep Pope Francis in their prayers. Cardinal Donald Wuerl installed a…