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With just three weeks to go until the biggest day in sports betting, it's looking less likely that Super Bowl bets will be placed in the District this year.

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson said Monday that lawmakers have seen an increase in the number of contracts requiring retroactive approval, suggesting that some city agencies “don’t know what…

OBESITY AND its devastating complications — such as chronic metabolic disease — might not seem like an epidemic in the tony neighborhoods of Ward 2, where only 3.6 percent of residents suffer from…

Our Q and A team asked what the D.C. government is doing to help small businesses not only stay in the area but thrive.

The D.C. American Civil Liberties Union is suing a Metropolitan Police Department officer and the District for what it describes as a sexually abusive and unconstitutional search of a District man…

This would be a nightmare. But not for the reasons you might think.

I know this as a former newspaper reporter, a former elected official, and as a continuing consumer of news. It takes blood and guts or sex and sleaze or at least some kind of scandal to get…

Downtown D.C.'s office vacancies hit another record-setting high in late 2019, a continued cause for alarm among the District's commercial real estate industry.

Home-sharing platforms like Airbnb, VRBO and HomeAway can offer visitors to D.C. all sorts of options for cheap places to stay, but they also seem to be making parts of the city more expensive for…

The American Civil Liberties Union of D.C. filed a lawsuit against the Metropolitan Police Department for the “unconstitutional and exceedingly invasive bodily search,” of a District resident,…

The Kimpton Rouge hotel near Dupont Circle will close for several months as its new owner embarks on an extensive renovation project.

D.C. is getting another craft brewery, this one on the border of the Brookland and Edgewood neighborhoods in Northeast D.C.

Government ethics reform is on the table throughout the Washington region, and much of it is overdue.

Gypsy Sally’s, the Georgetown concert venue and bar, closed earlier this month, its home destined to be redeveloped as condos.

Desiree Mitchell thought it would be funny to ride the Metro in January with nothing on her legs but a pair of underwear that read “Burning Up” on the rear.

When Michelle Hunt learned this month she had made the dean’s list in college, she knew just the person she needed to call: Yaayaa-Maria Hunt, her 26-year-old daughter.

As D.C. struggles to address the affordable housing crisis, one lawmaker hopes a bill he introduced will offer additional protections for people who do find places to live.

Owner Khepra Anu's lease was terminated, but he'll move operations to Tastemakers.

It’s been over 25 years since C. Brian Williams started showcasing stepping as an artistic dance form with Step Afrika!, and it’s been over 30 years since he was introduced to stepping as a student…

The author of an upcoming book on gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny’s groundbreaking work beginning in the late 1950s in fighting the federal government’s discrimination against gay people has given…