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Businesses in D.C. could have to start composting their food scraps under a bill introduced this week in the D.C. Council. That’s just one of the items in the legislation aimed at drastically reducing waste in the District.

The organizing comes as D.C. considers extending rent control for another decade

Is Georgetown even Georgetown without a Gap? The neighborhood could soon find out.

The Attorney General's Office says the mayor's art grab is against the law.

As the Catholic community in the Tenleytown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., continued to grow as the Civil War came to a close, Anne Green, a devout Catholic laywoman, saw many of her neighbors struggle to travel by buggy to Holy Trinity…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser violated District law late this summer when she created a new office to manage the city’s art collection and public art, according to the D.C. Attorney General’s office. Her move to take control of the city’s Art…

They feature civil rights activists and a former publisher of the Washington Post

The next time you cast a ballot in D.C., you’ll have Frederick Douglass help you show off the fact that you did your civic duty.

Washington has spent years fighting a reputation of being a high-tax, heavily regulated, business-unfriendly place. Recent developments suggest that the city’s commitment to economic and personal freedom may be waning. The Healthy Beverage…

“Much of what’s going on in the nation is because we’ve willfully, woefully forgotten lessons from the civil rights movement,” D.C. composer Nolan Williams Jr. says. “It’s when parents see their children making the same mistakes they made,…

The major development planned for the former site of the Sursum Corda Cooperative received a key approval this week.

With a new tax break firmly in hand and some additional financing lined up, the Menkiti Group says it has all the pieces in place to break ground on its MLK Gateway project in Anacostia before the year is out.

After months of debate, the D.C. Council held a hearing, chaired by Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White, to discuss the partnership between the Jelleff Field and Maret School on Monday.

The Capitol Riverfront neighborhood’s new luxury hotel, Thompson Washington D.C., will debut in December.

The latest round of proposed changes to D.C.’s Comprehensive Plan should open the door to more housing construction across the District and help Mayor Muriel Bowser move closer to her goal of building 36,000 new homes by 2025, according to…

Happy Wednesday. Enrollment in DC Public Schools increased 4% this year, while the charter sector for the first time saw a drop in numbers.