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Sports betting in D.C. is facing a new legal roadblock.

Generations of advocates have tried to make DC a state and failed. Now a group called '51 For 51' is trying a new strategy: changing the rules in the Senate.

It seems like everywhere you turn in the Nation’s Capital there are reminders of the DC statehood movement, poised to make noise Thursday during a Congressional hearing decades in the making.

Several D.C. Council members are asking whether the $215 million lottery and sports gaming contract the council approved this summer fulfills local business subcontracting requirements. This week,…

D.C. lawmakers on Tuesday proposed sweeping measures to curb the rise of youth vaping, including a ban on flavored e-cigarettes and requiring a prescription to buy other electronic smoking products. …

In the next six years, DC Streetcar riders could travel east from Union Station to the Benning Road Metro station along a newly-expanded track.

With the mayor’s signature, medical marijuana could soon be administered inside D.C. schools. The D.C. Council passed emergency legislation Tuesday allowing kids to access their prescription in…

Atlas Restaurant Group will open two venues in DC's Moxy hotel—each with rules about what to wear.

Following the lead of several other jurisdictions in the wake of increasing reports of vaping health risks, Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh on Tuesday introduced a bill to ban the sale or distribution…

A Senate panel on Tuesday took a first step toward reimbursing the District for costs incurred as a result of President Trump’s Fourth of July celebration, his inauguration and other events in the…

Eighteen months after the rechargeable, dockless scooters began popping up in the city, they’ve evolved from an oddity to a ubiquitous presence on streets and sidewalks. The District Department of…

Regardless of steps the D.C. Council takes to investigate and possibly punish Council member Jack Evans, activist and constituent Adam Eidinger believes the petition clipboard in his hands has more…

A very large cat, which was caught on a surveillance video jumping onto a fence in a Georgetown backyard and was thought possibly to be a mountain lion, has been identified.

"These corporations are going to let small businesses carry this festival."

Thousands of city employees can now use marijuana off the clock, whether for medicinal or recreational purposes.

The D.C.-based LGBT youth services group SMYAL is scheduled to hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, Sept. 19, to dedicate the official opening of its second transitional residential facility…

This spring, UrbanTurf reported on plans to redevelop the Howard University-owned site between Georgia Avenue and 8th Street NW between V and W Streets, currently home to the historic Bond Bread…

The display celebrates the relationship between the U.S. and Poland

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson has introduced a bill that would limit the ability of people charged with violent crimes from claiming they acted in self-defense when learning the victim was gay…

Most office buildings dotting the D.C. skyline work against the weather. When summer rolls in, the air conditioners click on and start blasting. As the sun starts shining through their windows,…