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Advocates say the Bowser administration’s strict regulations are to blame.

Mike Smith remembers how the disease ravaged San Francisco’s Castro district, the heart of the gay community. How you’d pass emaciated men on the street, covered in cancer scars, and how, by the summer of 1987, a thousand men in a 10-block…

D.C. police are investigating after a 15-year-old girl said she was injured during a confrontation with officers who stopped her and her younger brother as they sold plantain chips Tuesday evening on the street in Columbia Heights.

Douglas Jemal has pioneered the development of booming neighborhoods throughout D.C., none moreso than Ivy City.

It didn’t matter that Noreen Beatley didn’t know any of the homeless children. When she learned that they needed to cross two busy roads and then take multiple forms of public transportation to get to and from school, she offered to serve…

Apartments.com and Zillow aim to help protect Section 8 participants

As Howard University prepares for the next phase of its campus plan and redevelopment of off-campus properties, another site is on the table.

At-Large Councilmember David Grosso announced a couple weeks ago that he will not seek a third term in the Wilson Building. He then promptly went about setting fire to his soon-to-be former workplace—or at least to his soon-to-be former…

D.C. Council member Jack Evans displayed no hesi­ta­tion when an investigator recently asked about his compensation from a prominent Washington law firm.

In fleeing, the striking driver hit a D.C. Circulator bus and a parked car

D.C. Councilmember Charles Allen introduced two bills on Tuesday that would grant new rights and privileges to members of Native American tribes, particularly those indigenous to the D.C. area. One bill would allow people to include their…

Authentic. Groundbreaking. Compassionate. Loving. These are some of the words that come to mind when I think about the Whittier Education Campus community. I often joke with my staff that Whittier is the best-kept secret in the District of…

Happy Wednesday. Sitting in the third hour of the DC Council’s hearing on Jack Evans yesterday as investigators recited his dizzying conflicts of interest over the years, DL wondered whether the city might be witnessing the height of…

Following months of public meetings held by the District Department of Transportation to gather information about ways to improve the transportation network west of Massachusetts Avenue, one proposed plan has stood apart from the rest.

Philadelphia-based incubator chain 1776 has officially announced that its D.C. campus — which has been operating since August — is open.

Early last year, UrbanTurf reported on the potential routes and stations for the Northeast Maglev train, which would facilitate travel between DC and Baltimore in 15 minutes. Now, as the Federal Railroad Administration and Maryland…

A 3-year-old girl with autism allegedly was force-fed by a teacher at school last week. The alleged abuse happened at School Within School @ Goding in Northeast D.C.