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Former D.C. Office of Human Rights Director Mónica Palacio announced her candidacy for the independent at-large council seat today.

Major changes are coming to 14th Street in Columbia Heights starting this summer, including dedicated bus lanes, redesigned bike lanes, and pick-up and drop-off areas intended to address congestion in one of the city’s most bustling…

Park Hotels & Resorts has unloaded two more hotels following its acquisition of Chesapeake Lodging Trust, including one in D.C.

Sure, Black History Month is more than half over, but it’s not too late to get involved in an ongoing history project that honors the culture, struggles, and resiliency of the African American community during the Great Depression.

A new type of protected bus lane is coming to a dangerous, delay-filled part of D.C.’s Columbia Heights neighborhood this summer.

Here’s a fun fact about Washington: The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool contains 4 million gallons of water when filled. Another fun fact: It takes between three to four days to drain all that water for regular cleaning and repairs to the…

In an unusual turn of events, a coalition of D.C. groups, including nine LGBTQ organizations that strongly endorsed a D.C. City Council bill to decriminalize sex work in the nation’s capital, has voiced strong opposition to a proposal by…

Happy Thursday. Former officers with the Metro Transit Police told the DC Council yesterday they felt pressured to make arrests. The bad news adds onto the WaPo report from last week that some officers at the department held a competition…

If you thought a lot of residential units were delivering between Pleasant Plains and Mount Vernon Square this year, the Navy Yard area is almost twice as busy.

Five of this year's candidates have ties to the attorney general.

Leaders of the subterranean art space have fought for more than a decade to activate the tunnels below Dupont Circle.

D.C. has been making progress cleaning up the Anacostia and Potomac rivers, to the point where those long-polluted waterways could soon be safe to swim in. But recently, management at D.C.’s water and sewer authority has been considering…

Owner Said He's Retiring; Customers Say It's Tantamount to Gentrification

What country music is to Nashville and Jazz music is to New Orleans, go-go music is to DC. And on Wednesday, the living legends of go-go music came out to Culture House DC to witness history.

Former Metro Transit Police officers testified before the D.C. Council that they were pressured to meet a certain amount of tickets and arrests, calling it a quota system.

Alice Carter, a Street Sense Media vendor and artist who called the District home for 13 years, died on Dec. 18, 2019 at the age of 35.

An unsanctioned competition between some Metro Transit Police officers to make arrests has D.C. lawmakers questioning the transit agency’s policing practices.

D.C. Council members on Wednesday questioned Metro Transit Police Chief Ronald Pavlik Jr. about his department’s use-of-force policies after officers last week handcuffed a 13-year-old at a station and the agency confirmed that some…